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Of her city, editor Rebecca Loudon wrote, “Seattle is a city known for its rain, its lush green beltways, its flourishing theater and music communities, its suicides, and its serial killers. The Pacific Northwest poetic tradition includes Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, Sherman Alexie, Sam Hamill, Tess Gallagher, and Carolyn Kizer. When people think of the
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“If you look really hard, you can probably find some of these fine St. Louis poets any given Saturday night in the downstairs used book section at Left Bank Books, in the upstairs art gallery at Subterranean Books, or in someone’s basement with a case of Schlafly and half a dozen friends who hate poetry,
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Over the next few weeks, I’ll be reposting selections and notes from past editors of LOCUSPOINT‘s editions to celebrate our five years of publishing. First, we go back to the beginning. LOCUSPOINT launched on September 30, 2006 with three cities. The first one we’re reviewing (because it’s first in the alphabet) is Boston, originally edited
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Happily, today is LOCUSPOINT‘s fifth birthday, and we have one more reason to celebrate– Brent Calderwood’s San Francisco is live on LOCUSPOINT today. Of the city, Brent writes, “The dot-com boom and bust of the past few decades have made the Bay Area a very expensive place to live—-rarely a good thing for poets and
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For the past few months, I’ve been thinking again and again about something Mark Doty posted on Facebook related to the connection between poetry and the idea of (or the term itself) “the academy.” I was initially irritated by Mark’s implication that poetry existed only within colleges and universities these days, as from my perspective,
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Scene 1Boy meets poem. Boy: Hi, I’m writing you.Poem: Hi. Thanks for that. Scene 2Boy and poem get closer. Boy: I don’t know why, but I can’t stop rereading you.Poem: I get that a lot. I like it when you look at me. Scene 3Boy and poem fall into deep infatuation. Boy: I think you
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