Ben Pease

Why I Hate “The Arts”

by Joe Weil August 31, 2011 Aesthetics
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Perhaps it is the ends of art I hate–the way it is “valued” rather than integrated into the dynamic of being alive.

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Scattered Rhymes: Paige Taggart

by Ben Pease June 27, 2011 Scattered Rhymes
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Ben Pease interviews Paige Taggart on the Scattered Rhymes podcast.

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Poem of the Week: Peter Shippy

by Ben Pease May 5, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[Extract from My Ragged Company, #19]

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Scattered Rhymes: Ken Chen

by Ben Pease March 5, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ben Pease interviews Ken Chen on the Scattered Rhymes Podcast.

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Scattered Rhymes: Colin Cheney

by Ben Pease February 26, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ben Pease interviews Colin Cheney on the Scattered Rhymes Podcasts.

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Scattered Rhymes: Solmaz Sharif

by Ben Pease February 19, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ben Pease interviews Solmaz Sharif on the Scattered Rhymes Podcast.

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Scattered Rhymes: Deborah Landau

by Ben Pease February 12, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ben Pease interviews Deborah Landau on the Scattered Rhymes Podcast.

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Scattered Rhymes: Ben Mirov

by Ben Pease February 5, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ben Pease interviews Ben Mirov on the Scattered Rhymes Podcast.

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Scattered Rhymes: Morgan Parker

by Ben Pease January 29, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Morgan Parker describes herself as equipped with the eyes of a surrealist, ears of an ethnographer, tongue of a cynical comedian, and heart of a brooding sixteen-year old.

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Scattered Rhymes: Sarah Schweig

by Ben Pease January 22, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Sarah Schweig, neighbor to airfields, estrangement, mythology, imagination, opens up about how she came to be a poet of departures. Pardon my inability to pronounce Catullus.

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Scattered Rhymes: Josh Bettinger

by Ben Pease January 15, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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He’s just a west-coast boy, living in New York City, he took the express train to where good poems reside.

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Scattered Rhymes: Dawn Marie Knopf

by Ben Pease January 8, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Dawn Marie Knopf’s poetry feeds off a particularly American mythos: old wives’ tales, Farmer’s Almanacs, the revered stories of American pop heroes before they made it big.

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