• — he became the proud owner of a 40-foot trailer’s worth of modern firsts plus hard-to-find literary magazines —
• — Huge audience expected for finale —
• — Beware the public poem. Literature is littered with the efforts of poets trying to rise to some occasion of national importance—and failing dismally. —
• — Winning the lottery is a faint hope, becoming a sports hero is a daydream, but publishing poetry is the ambition of one-third of the American people and another third are thinking about writing a memoir —
• — “Like everything else on the web, the mere absence of such things is often enough to serve as the catalyst for them.” —
• — One hundred years ago today, a group of poets rebelled against Romanticism in a London cafe and changed the course of poetry —
• — Poems from the Women’s Movement —
• — “There’s a great essay by Fanny Howe in the latest issue of Poetry.” —
• — You never think, ‘Oh, how disgusting!’ You think, ‘Gee, I wish I could get on one of those gambling boats. I’d like to meet an ice-pick murderer.’ “ —

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