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Tony DeGenaro
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Natasha Trethewey Gulfing!
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is flexing her foreign diplomacy muscles in the Persian Gulf for National Poetry Month. On April 24, Trethewey will be participating in a public interview at the Abu Dhabi International Bookfair, to kick off the massive list of…
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Mystery in Golden Gate Park
Boo Radley of “To Kill a Mockingbird” apparently moved to San Francisco. A few weeks ago, in SF’s beloved Golden Gate Park, a small wooden elf door appeared, covering a notch in a tree. The community responded positively, putting wishes,…
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Nabil Nahas is Painting With Starfish
Ranging widely from densely textured works on canvas formed with layers of an acrylic and pumice mixture on top of silicon molds to abstract representations of the native olive and cedar trees of Lebanon, Nahas’s work consistently oscillates between many…
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Vampire Weekend is Doing Odd Things
New York indie band Vampire Weekend somehow have proven that music videos are still culturally relevant. Earning them the response, “Vampire Weekend are a bunch of dicks,” the music video for their song “Diane Young” (which is great) shows an…
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Spread the Poetry Love!
National Poetry Month. Lots is going on. Red Hen Press (see our interview with Eloise Klein Healy, an editor of Red Hen’s imprint Arktoi) is teaming up with a bunch of other publishers for a buy one, gift one deal…
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A Quick Interview with Diana Salier
“Confessional” poet Diana Salier (whom we love) confesses to misusing cafe space and more in this interview at Monkeybicycle. It’s basically a snapshot of that time in my life, which is kind of cool now when it feels so far away. It’s…
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Forever Stamp Poets
Because nothing says “here is my overdue rent” like a greeting sealed with a Theodore Roethke stamp. The United States Postal Service is jumping into the fun of National Poetry Month by issuing ten new forever stamps featuring the handsome…
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Reading Chairs
Luckily, there’s a website devoted to fancy chairs. If that’s not enough, in anticipation for the Salone del Mobile furniture fair, fellow bookworms across the world wide web have been marking off their favorite reader-friendly models. Hey book lovers, please take…
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National Poetry Month
April Fools and the beginning of National Poetry Month? Seems like a killer day to us! [April 1] marks the start of National Poetry Month, the monthlong celebration of the verse inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. The…
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Make Mine a Double Decker
San Francisco residents (or anyone amused by public transportation shenanigans) should look no further than Muni Diaries’s Five Best Muni Moments. Favorite: “a rider saw two guys selling Starbucks coffee beans out of a suitcase on the back of the 22-Fillmore.…
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Amazon.com & Goodreads Link Up
Today, the Goodreads’ social network of book reviews and reading suggestions was acquired by online retail giant Amazon. While we are super bummed about this, Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s Vice President, says: “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading. Goodreads has helped…