Notable NYC: 9/28–10/4
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: molly peacock
Notable NYC: 2/25–3/3
Saturday 2/25: Christian Hawkey and Himanshu Suri join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Emily Brandt and Ali Power join the SOLO reading series. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/26: Nicole Steinberg celebrates the release of Glass Actress with Niina Pollari, Sarah Jean Grimm, and Esther Lin. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 4 p.m., […]
...moreProse on the Prose Poem in Poetry
In the December issue of Poetry Magazine, reprinted on the Harriet Blog, Molly Peacock shares an extended meditation on the prose poem. Before troubling the easy dichotomies often ascribed to the parent genre, Peacock lays them out: “Poetry seeks to name; prose seeks to explain. Poems favor nouns; prose rides on verbs.” The piece goes […]
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