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Jonterri Gadson

Jonterri Gadson is the author of the chapbooks, Interruptions(MIEL, 2014) and Pepper Girl (YesYes Books, 2012). She is the recipient of scholarships/fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, University of Dayton and the University of Virginia’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her poetry is forthcoming or published in Los Angeles Review, Callaloo, The Collagist, Anti-, PANK and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Bloomfield College in New Jersey.
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    Where Poetry Lives: Writing Workshop for Medical Students

    PBS continued its Where Poetry Lives series with a feature on Rafael Campos’ writing workshop for medical students.

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    Write-a-House

    An organization in Detroit announced a new writer’s residency, Write-a-House, where “the writer is simply given the house, forever.”

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    How do you dramatise writing poetry?

    The Economist blog has a Q&A with John Krokidas, the writer/director of Kill Your Darlings, a film about Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Carr.

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    Becoming a Poetry Genius

    Howard Ramsey II discusses what becoming a Poetry Genius entails and how that process relates to the digital humanities in an essay on Poetry Genius, a sister site of Rap Genius. 

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    Video Poetry: The Third Form

    Erica Goss evaluates book trailers for poetry collections over on  Connotation Press’ site in a series on video poetry. 

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    Imagematic Writing

    Screenwriter Scott Myers explains how closely poetry relates to screenwriting over on his Go Into the Story blog.

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    Virtual Seminars: Reed, Hayes, & Trethewey

    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) sponsored program at University of Kansas, Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry, hosts virtual seminars with poets Nikki Giovanni, Terrance Hayes, Liegh McInnis, Brenda Marie Osbey, Ishmael Reed and Natasha Trethewey…

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    Life of ‘Pie’: Writer Finds Poetry in Fruit of Her Labor

    USA Today recently wrote an article on Kate Lebo’s, A Commonplace Book of Pie, which features recipes and poems. 

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    Who Pays Writers? We Asked the Editors

    In the free preview edition of the new online journal Scratch, which we posted about here, web editors discussed their jobs and paying writers.

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    30 Poems in 30 Days Inspired By Works in the 30 Americans Art Exhibit

    Innovative poet, Stephanie Pruitt, kicked off her 30x30x30 project which will result in “30 poems written by Stephanie Pruitt in 30 days inspired by works in the 30 Americans art exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Nashville,…

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    Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona

    Lynn Melnick is moderating a discussion on person and persona in poetry on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ site.

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    Modernist Pickup Lines

    Nick McRae, started a Modernist Pickup Lines tumblr.