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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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    Let’s Read About Sex

    The New York Times asked novelists, memoirists, and poets for their thoughts on writing and reading about sex. 

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    ‘Why Can’t Poets Write Poems as Good as a Jay-Z Song?’: Posthumanism and Poetry

    This month’s blogger on the Poetry Foundations’s blog, Tyrone Williams, shares his thoughts on post-humanism as it relates to technology’s effects on students and readers of poetry. He writes:

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    No Crying in the Barbershop: A Conversation with Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner

    Her Kind, a literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts chose hair as its September theme. Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner’s conversation on the site responded to the question “Why do we care so much about hair?”

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    A Symposium on Revenge

    The Threepenny Review’s Fall 2013 issue includes a section called “A Symposium on Revenge” with selections by Geoff Dyer, Robert Pinsky, James Lasdun, Adam Phillips, and Louise Glück. Threepenny, so lovingly, made Glück’s essay available online

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    Thoughts on the Creative Process

    Geffrey Davis has a post up on The Head & The Hand about how boxing influences his writing process.

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    PBS NewsHour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives

    I just finished watching the first segment of PBS NewsHour’s poetry series featuring US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey that aired last night. The segment focused on how poetry and language have enhanced the quality of life for dementia patients and…