Month: November 2009
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Collected Poets Series, December Ed.
This Thursday, December 3, at 7:00 pm, the Collected Poets Series is pleased to present Mary Koncel and Kate Greenstreet! Please note our new start time. Mary Koncel has published two books of prose poems, You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press) which was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber […]
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What’s Sacred.
Laura Didyk, over on her blog, Outloud, talks about a project conceived by her and a friend: In the Eyes of Everyone: A Project for Everyday Visionaries. The website won’t launch until 2010, but you can go here to read more about it. In association with that project, Laura has issued a creative assignment: Take […]
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Draft of the Week, #9.
My first draft of November, and the month’s three-quarters gone — oy. I’m accustomed to shoe-horning in a fair amount of me-time rather late at night, after everyone has gone to bed, but lately it’s just not happening. But after days of a line here, a deleted stanza there, I think this morning’s work has […]
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Yet More Reasons Why I Love the Internet.
Because I’m constantly discovering new poet crushes, these poets who write such exquisite lines, whose poems I absolutely covet. This week’s discovery: Carolina Ebeid. You can find some of her poems online Here at Memorious. “Pale / glyph of dog” — seriously, I felt my heart twinge. Here at Agni Online. “The work of grief […]
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2 Days/2 Wildly Different Audiences.
Talking to a rugful of first-graders is a scary business. Keeping their interest, watching for signs of restlessness and disinterest, and then immediately switching course to lure back their attention…I think we chatted 25 minutes all told, but I was exhausted! The teachers were endlessly patient and encouraging — the kids’ poems are hung all […]
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Do You Realize There Are Only 7 Weeks Left to the Year?
Egads, where has the time went?! There’s micro-time, this week, wherein: I drove to North Adams for a meeting, have my reading tonight with Kim Rogers at the Green Street Café (which I am so excited about; that and the dinner provided — Green St. has an excellent menu!), and tomorrow afternoon I’m visiting, in […]
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The Thing about Publishing.
I’m drinking coffee at my desk. The baby’s napping, Lance took Vincent for a walk. And I’ve just noticed a couple phrases Lance scrawled on the legal pad on my desk at some point in the last day or so: “Robust incoherence” and “transcendent vacuity”. I don’t know if he was criticizing something himself or […]
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Collected Poets Series, Nov. Edition.
This Thursday, November 5, at 7:30pm, the Collected Poets Series will present another full night with poets April Ossmann, Peter Waldor, and Pamela Stewart. April Ossmann is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007) and has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Harvard Review, […]
Marie Gauthier 