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Why Lesser Talent Succeeds

by Joe Weil November 15, 2011 The Other

I believe being recognized is a talent, a capability in its own right.

Terrible Eyes: On a Newly Discovered Photograph of Arthur Rimbaud

by Adam Fitzgerald April 18, 2010 The Other

I followed deadpan Rivers down and down,
And knew my haulers had let go the ropes.
Whooping redskins took my men as targets
And nailed them nude to technicolour posts.

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All the People of the Universe (An interview with Dorothea Lasky)

by Ben Fama April 16, 2010 The Other

To sum up our tryptych of posts for Dorothea Lasky, I present a brief and delicious interview

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As I’m writing This I’m drinking Earl Grey. Hot.

by Bianca Stone April 12, 2010 The Other

Recently I have begun the epic adventure of watching a series after its time on television. This means many hours of sitting in front of a screen, not having to watch commercials or wait a week, or a year, to see how it all unfolds. Often times when you should be writing the greatest poem [...]

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Could Eros be kept

by Zachary Pace April 8, 2010 The Other

nay, thank him and the bright goddess
that he left us

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Partial board meeting

by Stuart Krimko April 8, 2010 The Other

at Great Lakes bar and Chris Stackhouse’s apartment Attendees yours truly Fitzgerald Kearney Gregorian Stackhouse though not sure if he counts honorary board member maybe everyone’s welcome everybody’s autobiography something in Ashbery about that ‘Soonest Mended’ until too late in the morning almost the dawn Minutes: dogwoods Parliaments fire escape, five favorite poets, five favorite [...]

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POESY LINKS

by Sasha Fletcher April 3, 2010 The Other

http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010/04/laura-carter.html
is this a poem? i don’t know. i don’t care. A) she’s a poet and greying ghost put out a poetry chapbook of hers B) it’s awesome and in terms of its approach to the idea of the lyric i’d say it’s probably better than a deal of things i’ve read in verse. when i say better i want to qualify that: it is inventive and invigorating. inventive may not be the right word. but say this aloud. a lot.

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Holy Saturday: The Poetry of Doubt

by Adam Fitzgerald April 3, 2010 The Other

A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.”
—Wallace Stevens, ‘Sunday Morning’

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Convalescence

by Stuart Krimko April 1, 2010 The Other

This morning I couldn’t get up I didn’t want to get up I didn’t get up in bed here I lay with the usual bloggy stuff to say, poetry etc. Window world a world apart, window world and widowed bed. I will not leave my bed alone. I will be here for it until I [...]

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Portland

by Stuart Krimko March 25, 2010 Memoir

I’m sitting up in bed, or on the couch, as it were, where I have been trying to sleep off the slew of vodka-and-tonics I downed last night at our Sand Paper Press reading here in Portland. Shawn Vandor, whose Fire at the end of the rainbow was just reviewed over at Dossier, and I [...]

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Paparazzi

by Adam Fitzgerald March 20, 2010 The Other

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”

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