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Poem of the Week: Claudia Serea

On the differences between folk and commodity art, as per slam and academia

Poetry Comics! Paul K. Tunis

Sweet Sue Terry and “Hurt Hawks”

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“Poetry Means You’re Writing About the World”: An Interview with Anne Winters

Scattered Rhymes: Paige Taggart

Reflections on “The &NOW Festival of New Writing” in San Diego, 2011

Poem of the Week: Mario Moroni

Poem of the Week: Claudia Serea

by Mike Foldes January 27, 2012 Poems of the Week

[I write for ghosts]

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On the differences between folk and commodity art, as per slam and academia

by Joe Weil January 25, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

I read Williams the same way I read vampire comics: for pleasure and for the purposes of theft. This is the folk art way, and it survives commodity art even when it is packaged and sold.

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by Brian Chappell January 23, 2012 Reviews

All the tasty bits of vintage Murakami are here: dull but steadfast male leads, hypersexual and hypersexy teenagers, strange conspiracies loaded with uncanny coincidences, and, of course, forays into parallel universes.

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Poem of the Week: Mario Moroni

by Mike Foldes January 20, 2012 Poems of the Week

[Ballata del Maine]

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Sweet Sue Terry and “Hurt Hawks”

by Joe Weil January 18, 2012 Other Writing and Arts

At one point, I made a very precarious living playing piano in a couple bars, one of which was run by a coke fiend who had a driver pick me up for the gig three times a week.

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“Poetry Means You’re Writing About the World”: An Interview with Anne Winters

by Sarah Eggers January 16, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

I was introduced to Ms. Winters’ work in graduate school and, ever since, have been a ardent admirere of her lushly orchestrated, yet intimate and searingly honest poems about the “big issues” that so many contemporary poets seem to shy away from: race, class, poverty, and gender.

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