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Best American Poetry 2013 Book Launch at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, Saturday, August 31, 4:15-5:00 27 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
The Best American Poetry 2013 Book Launch First Baptist Decatur Sanctuary Stage with readings by Jericho Brown, Denise Duhamel, David Kirby, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, and Kevin Young. Books will be fo...
A Supermarket on Facebook and 'Free Union' by Breton [by Larry Sawyer] 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
[Happy birthday, Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880–1918] André Breton's agenda to destroy bourgeois forms of consciousness with the exploration of desire as "a theatre of provocations" is possibly most appa...
Larry Sawyer, Guest Author August 26-30 26 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
Larry Sawyer is the author of Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox, 2013), and Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Books, 2010). His poetry has appeared in Action Yes, The Chicago Tribune, Coconut, Court Green, E...
"Happy Forty-Three, Graham Foust!" [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook] 25 Aug 2013 | 09:27 am
GRAHAM FOUST (8/25) Foust is forty-three. Don’t try to annihilate me. His Christian name is Graham. The Lion will lie to the Lamb. The Nixon Administration Has made a promiscuous oration. And Foust is...
Save the Date and Spread the Word: September 19, 2013 Gala Launch, The Best American Poetry 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
The New School 66 W. 12th Street, New York, NY Tishman Auditorium 7:00 PM Free With Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Denise Duhamel and The Best American Poetry 2013 contributors * Kim Addoniz...
ERRATA: [by A. Van Jordan] 23 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
ERRATA: So, a few days ago I quoted a part of Gwendolyn Brooks' Annie Allen, from "the children of the poor" poem. I said it was in the "Anniad" section of the book, but it's actually in the last sect...
Gettin’ Over: How It is in the Poem is How It is in Life [by A. Van Jordan] 23 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
So, for my last blog, I spoke to some poets to get an idea of what I should do, and I think I’m going to take a cue from poet John Murillo (Up Jump the Boogie), who suggested that I...
Untitled 23 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
Gettin’ Over: How It is in the Poem is How It is in Life By A. Van Jordan So, for my last blog, I spoke to some poets to get an idea of what I should do, and I think...
In Memory of John Hollander (1929-2013) [by David Lehman] 23 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
John Hollander died last weekend. He was two months shy of his 84th birthday and had been in poor health. We join the many who mourn him. He was the eleventh guest editor in the history of the Best Am...
The Assemblage of Poems [by A. Van Jordan] 23 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
Okay, so, today I’m cheating a bit. If you’re a student of mine out there in the world, and you’re reading this blog today, you will have heard much of what will follow. Or, possibly, you weren’t list...
