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“I want many of the same things from a good novel that I want from a good poem, on a prose level.[…] there’s a scene in Ink and Steel wherein I used every English word derived from the Latin raptus* that I could manage. (Yes, it’s that scene. You know the one.) Rapture, rape, raptor, […]

12th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will run from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2008 in New Jersey. There are shuttle buses from Manhattan (about an hour and $10) There are dozens of internationally and nationally renowned poets and dozens of other accomplished poets, as well as musicians and storytellers. There’s a […]

The nervous sense of proprietary protection of poetry as something to be protected from theft is a cultural artifact. It reflects from corporation, the economic model for legalistic behavior to exact their owed fees from a passive consumer culture. The aim is exclusive market monopoly for large scale uniform product distributed as cheaply and widely […]

George Murray of 4 poetry collections and bookninja was in town last night at the Tree Reading. He remarked on how, with not a word of flattery, he assured, how wonderfully strong the open mic set was. Some who opt in can get the text or audio recording of their poem posted at the site […]

Random cross-section of a range of poets gives benefits. The poem postcard a day project for August is in its last week and today’s postcard is the sort of poem I might comb thru a few books to get as much pleasure from. It’s by Rane Arroyo (at bottom of said page, links to sample […]