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Posts Tagged: Mike Chasar
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Welcome to Saturday night. Hope you like what I’ve dug up for you this week. Okay, this first one isn’t technically poetry, but if you’re interested in Bright Star, Jane Campion’s film about John Keats,
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A confluence of politics and poetry: Senate Sotomayor votes explained in haiku. No great surprise, but poetry is disappearing from B&N bookshelves in Chico, CA. And pretty much every B&N, for that matter. Sometimes I feel like I should just put a link to Mike Chasar’s blog in every one of these posts. This one […]
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MIke Chasar delves into a different side of pin-up poetry. Ron Silliman on the passing of David Bromige. Dale Smith has a few words to say on the latest salvo from Flarf and Conceptual Poetry practitioners. Harry Potter writes poetry. Okay, Dan Radcliffe writes it, and publishes it under a pseudonym. Of course he does–he’s […]
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Poetry is good for your face, but you need to make sure you rub it all the way in. Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, is having some problems with commenters. I wonder why we don’t? Steven Fama has a few choice words for the Pulitzer Committee. John Ashbery on the importance of poetry: “Its beauty […]
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Andrew Motion is retiring as Britain’s Poet Laureate, and he has a few words on the matter. Exoskeleton on the tension between “greatness” and the avant-garde in poetry. What do Britney Spears, James Joyce and William Shakespeare have in common? Travis Nichols distills the Schiavo-Dickman feud down a bit, and suggests the debate may go […]
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