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Today all of my windows and doors are open, letting a wonderful breeze through my house. The wind takes with it the belched odor of burnt IKEA plastic (horrifying microwave-sausage incident) and is currently circulating vanilla, jasmine, and raspberry candles. Light everywhere. Birds chirping. Even the occasional car engine has an allure. I did not
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Well, I’m pleased to continue to hear more about the perceived controversy involved in the annual Best American Poetry anthology. Why? No particular reason, other than I like my grapes a little on the sour side. But sour grapes aside, it’s interesting to watch these conversations develop here and there. People seem really invested in
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Would it kill you to load the new Sissor Sister’s album Ta-Da! sometime in the next 24 hours? Because it’s killing me that you haven’t yet; it’s already 48 hours since it was released. Since your inception, you have spoiled me by reducing my number of foot trips to the local music store by 90%.
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Over the last few months I have been moving away from poetry. I’m landing nowhere in particular, although I’m still thinking about my projects-in-progress, but I think I’m in one of my annual “confused states” about what poetry means/should be/wants to be/actually is. This happens here a lot. It’s sort of like getting a bump
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When people read work from Living Things, one comment I invariably receive is, I can’t believe you went through x experience or When x happens in y poem, that must have been really hard for you. The truth was, it wasn’t hard. Because most of the poems are fabrications. But the poems are true poems.
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It sometimes amazes me when I conceive of a project, put it into motion, and bring it to fruition. I’m an Aries—we are well-known for starting projects passionately….and then losing interest. It is with great, great pride and joy that I announce to you that LOCUSPOINT is indeed going to debut this month, on the
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