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Brian Spears

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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • March 8, 2009
Interesting conversation going on about a piece in the latest Poetry. Start here at Samizdat, then find further discussion at A Compulsive Reader, Exoskeleton (multiple posts–click around), and back to…
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  • Features & Reviews
  • Last Book I Loved

The Last Book I Loved: The Wordy Shipmates

  • Brian Spears
  • March 6, 2009
I fall in love pretty easily, so for me right now it’s Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates, which is her take on John Winthrop, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson of…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • February 28, 2009
I guess it just took a little time for the poetry blogs to realize that David Orr had been in the NYTBR smack-talking about the lack of greatness in poetry…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • February 22, 2009
Whoever wrote this poem lo those many years ago ought to be forced to wear those shorts. I’m really surprised there hasn’t been more of a response to David Orr’s…
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  • Features & Reviews

Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • February 14, 2009
Happy Singles Awareness Day, everyone. Here’s a Valentine from Louis Zukofsky to help you finish the night off right. AWP wasn’t the only party this past week–Josh Corey has photos…
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  • Features & Reviews
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  • Rumpus Original

A Questioning Faith

  • Brian Spears
  • February 12, 2009
A Review of Dan Albergotti’s The Boatloads I have a special place in my heart for literature that juxtaposes the sacred and profane, that challenges perhaps the most successful meme…
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  • Features & Reviews

Poetic Lives Online

  • Brian Spears
  • February 7, 2009
AWP is approaching quickly, and though I won’t be there, lots of other poetry folks will be. Raymond Bianchi has a (short) list of restaurants that conference goers might want…
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Poetic Lives Online

  • Brian Spears
  • January 31, 2009
Mark Scroggins of Culture Industry spent last weekend Zukofsky-ing in Sussex, and has both a rundown and photos. Jeff Hilson provides further photographic commentary. Odali$qued provides some notes toward a…
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  • Features & Reviews

Poetic Lives Online: Random Poetry Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • January 26, 2009
Oh, the things I’ve learned since I started doing this little column, the arguments I’ve lurked through, the long-winded defenses of one’s aesthetic choices, et cetera, et cetera. And I’m…
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Faint Praise for “Praise Song”

  • Brian Spears
  • January 21, 2009
As a poet, I appreciate the gesture made toward the arts when the President-elect asks a poet to present a work at his or her inauguration.
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Poetic Lives Online: Random Poetry Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • January 18, 2009
The inaugural poem is sucking up a lot of the oxygen in the poetry world for now, and with good reason. An inaugural poem is even rarer than the Olympics,…
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Poetic Lives Online: Random Poetry Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • January 12, 2009
With the inauguration of Barack Obama swiftly approaching (though not swiftly enough for some), the return of an inaugural poet/poem has gotten some play.
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