David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Brief Inner Happiness
Writing requires sustained attention to what figures, disfigures, and refigures our imaginations and includes a vision that takes every experience into account.
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Posts Tagged: Craig Arnold
A Field Unfenced: Remembering Craig Arnold
We were sitting in an unfamiliar building on campus, my student Natalie and I, talking about the poet we were reading for that week, Craig Arnold.
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There will be a memorial gathering for Craig tomorrow, November 1, at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York City) from 5-8pm. A brief program of readers will begin at 5:30. There will be a cash bar and light appetizers. Barbara Jane Reyes has a couple of posts on indie publishing over at Harriet. […]
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Made Flesh” by Craig Arnold
I met the poet Craig Arnold only once. It was late February or early March of this year.
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Congratulations to Carole Ann Duffy, Britain’s new Poet Laureate, and both the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position. Mayday Magazine hosts a roundtable on the need for the negative review in poetry. Joshua Corey wins the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. What does it really mean that fewer people […]
...moreAn Update on Craig Arnold
A couple of days ago, we passed along the story that poet Craig Arnold was missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchino-erabu-shima while on a creative exchange fellowship. The search is still going on, and the best place to get information on the story is on the Facebook page “Find Craig Arnold. With the […]
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