David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Brief Inner Happiness
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...moreWe 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.
...moreThere 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. […]
...moreI met the poet Craig Arnold only once. It was late February or early March of this year.
...moreCongratulations 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 […]
...moreA 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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