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In other news . . .
Daniel Nester reads at New York City's McNally Jackson book store as part of the Real Characters humor series: January 9, 7:00 PM. Details here.
Delirious Hem continues its Chick Flick series, edited by Jennifer L. Knox and with a new post every day. What is chick flick anyway?
From Bowie to Bessie: Catch up with Coldfront's "Song of the Week" series, with contributions from some of our great contibutors!
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Watch Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy Preview on PBS. See more from Great Performances.
“In any great adventure, if you don’t want to lose…you won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews.” Eric Idle
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This week we welcome Tomás Q. Morín as our guest blogger. Tomás is the winner of the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his collection A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: 40 Essays on Philip Levine. His poems have appeared in Slate, Threepenny Review, Boulevard, New England Review, and Narrative.
Welcome, Tomás.
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We mourn the loss of Jake Adam York, who died suddenly today. Jake was 40. Too too young. He was a kind generous talented poet and a good man. His death comes as a great shock.
Jake was a guest blogger here in July, 2011. We will repost his writing in the days to come.
Rest in peace, Jake.
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Mark Strand is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Almost Invisible (Knopf, 2012), Man and Camel (Knopf, 2006), Blizzard of One (1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Reasons for Moving (1968). Strand's honors include the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as fellowships from The Academy of ...American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.
Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press), and two limited edition chapbooks: Quarantine (Argos Books, 2012) and Echolocation (Float Press, 2010). A recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Black has also received recent fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers, and the University of Utah. He was the subject of an Emerging Poet profile by Mark Jarman in the Fall 2011 issue of the Academy of American Poets’ American Poet magazine.
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In celebration of former Academy of American Poets Chancellor Louise Glück’s Poems 1962-2012, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Ecco Press), poets Frank Bidart, Dana Levin, Robert Pinsky, Peter Streckfus, and Ellen Bryant Voigt join Glück on stage to read selections of her work.
December 14, 2012, 7:00 PM
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Free and Open to the Public (limited seating)
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For the poetry loving cook in your life we're bringing you this special offer from Bloof Books and Saltlickers:
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On Monday, November 5 we began our Year in Review series. We're posting selections from each of our guest bloggers. We're sure you will be inspired to look for more work by our
contributors and to buy their books as holiday gifts. You can catch up by following the link above. And you can read posts by all of our guest bloggers, from the blog's beginning to the present, here. You will find remarkable work.
Jim Cummins continues to post from Cincinnati.
We solve your holiday shopping with this sweet-salty hookup.
KGB Monday Night (12.10) Season Finale: Mark Strand + Malachi Black
A Tribute to Louise Glück: December 14, 2012, 7:00 PM, The New School
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For the poetry loving cook in your life we're bringing you this special offer from Bloof Books and Saltlickers:
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Holiday Shopping Solved
Buy any gift box of 3 Saltlicker flavors and receive a copy of The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, by Jennifer L. Knox. For details and to place your order, go here now.
"These Saltlickers take the top of my head off!" Emily Dickinson.
"When I need tranquility to recollect powerful emotions, I add Saltlickers to my cereal!" William Wordsworth
"Saltlickers lift the veil from the hidden beauty of the world. Try them and tell me you don't agree!" Percy Bysshe Shelley
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