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Notes on Kelli Agodon’s Small Knots

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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Kelli Agodon’s book arrived last night. Lovely poems. One favorite of mine describes changes in the speaker’s hips after having had a baby. This is the kind […]

I Would Like the ‘Death of Poetry’ to Be, Well, Dead

Posted by deborah

No doubt many of you, like me, are sick and tired of the annual “Is Poetry Dead?” essay that invariably appears…somewhere. These essays usually crop up close to April.
April is now, as we know too well, ‘Poetry Month.’ During these 30 days, poets are asked to give interviews, people who never read poetry might […]

African American Blogs and Poetry Contest

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My blog came up #2 on this search: “african american blogs that have poems about september 11.” What people search for fascinates me.
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Check out this poetry contest:
http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/Libraries/Events/LibrariesEventsPoetry.aspx

Postage is Going Up; Mags that Take Online Submissions

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Postage will go up to 41 cents in a few more months. With the rate hikes, you might find yourselves wanting to mail out less often. Take a look at this list of magazines that accept online submissions.

Notes on Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees

Posted by deborah

This is second in a series of notes on what I’m reading. These are not meant to be reviews; they are simply my initial thoughts and impressions.

The Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees by Julianna Baggott won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series sponsored by Pleiades Press. I have to be completely upfront and say […]

32 Poems Poetry Magazine

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The first 7.5 people who leave a comment will receive the new issue of 32 Poems. That’s what you get for stopping by today. Thanks!
UPDATE:
Wow. When I came back here to check, I realized that Nick and Jeannine had commented here before so they are ‘approved’ and can leave unmoderated comments. That was not fair […]

Tidbits

Posted by deborah

Recent web site and blog discoveries:
The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts
Poet with a Day Job
Tim Green, Rattle
You can find more poetry blogs on my blogroll.

32 Poems Poetry Magazine

Posted by deborah

We want to let you all know that the new issue of 32 Poems will be mailed in the next 1-2 weeks. More soon.
A few randomly selected contributor bios:
A 2001 graduate of Harvard Law School, Seth Abramson co-edits New Hampshire Review. Recent poems have appeared in Iowa Review, Boston Review, Verse, Pleiades, jubilat, Colorado Review, […]

Notes on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Posted by deborah

I read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road this past weekend. I wish I’d been the editor to first read this book, because the excitement of reading a book this well crafted, this frightening, and this beautiful is such a rare experience.
The following is a snippet from the jacket cover:
A father and his son walk […]

Creativity Workshop in New Jersey

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I’ll be teaching in this Creative Writing Workshop in May at The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium.