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I was encouraged by a friend to seek out this book. It was one of the best pieces of reading advice I’ve been given. I remember poring over this volume when I first got it, enjoying it, and then I hit the central long poem in the book, “From L’Hotel Terminus Notebooks,” and that’s when
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Helpless and horrified, the readers of Blood Dazzler can do nothing to stop the impending trauma and destruction of Hurricane Katrina as she sets her one clear eye on the city of New Orleans. We know the ending of the story, which makes the retelling so much more terrifying: hospital patients abandoned, a sports facility
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This month, rather than writing a poem every day, I’m going to blog about a book of poetry that has been important to me, or that I’ve really admired. First up: Mathias Svalina’s Destruction Myth, a brilliant sequence of poems that continually rewrite “Creation Myth”s, finished off with one big, cataclysmic “Destruction Myth.” A longer
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I was so eager to have Suzanne Frischkorn’s new book Girl on a Bridge that I accidentally ordered it twice! And oddly, both packages arrived on the same day. I’m keeping the one Suzanne signed to me, but I’d like to do a promotion to give away my other copy–FOR FREE! Go to Facebook and
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and it was with David Leavitt, and it only recently ended. But unlike Tiger Woods, I am not sorry. I spent the last several months reading Leavitt’s Collected Stories from cover to cover. I loved it. I hope it’s no secret that I love a short story. I do. If I cheat on poetry, it’s
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Is the publishing bubble going to burst? I’m thinking a lot about how literary publishing has really exploded in the past several years, with the rise of small presses, nonprofit presses, print-on-demand services, diy publishing, and so on. I think it is fantastic that there are so many ways to get books into print now,
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