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Summer Reading List - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 18, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Talking Poetry, Trance, and the Body with Kristin Prevallet - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 17, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Shorter, Hence Sweeter - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 16, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Me, too, admiration for teachers. It's a tightrope walk some days. Okay, most.
I remember once, literally, I got a rejection letter one year and two months to the date of submission. As a sometime editor myself now, I get it!
Commented Jun 15, 2011 on On Teaching Poetry in Prison - Cara Benson at The Best American Poetry
On Teaching Poetry in Prison - Cara Benson
While conversation often takes a certain turn in various social interactions outside of literary gatherings when the word "poet" rings out in response to the sooner-or-later query "what do you do?" (which usually stands in for what do you do for a living, which isn't actually what I do for a ...
On Teaching Poetry in Prison - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 15, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Memorial Reading for Akilah Oliver - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 14, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Sam, I love the distinction you make between "cu" and "whole"! My worries are moving targets. And then there's O'Hara
"But how can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them. Improves them for what? For death? Why hurry them along? Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears)."
Commented Jun 14, 2011 on Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson at The Best American Poetry
Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson
I’ve been thinking about blogging and being a guest and l’étranger and Derrida “On Hospitality” and Adorno “On Lyric Poetry and Society” and thinking about this space (language) as a threshold. An entry point. A door which gives up passage to something. This post, or a poem, as Derrida’s “pri...
Poetry in the polis? - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 13, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Well there goes my all Derrida all week plans....
Commented Jun 12, 2011 on Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson at The Best American Poetry
Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson
I’ve been thinking about blogging and being a guest and l’étranger and Derrida “On Hospitality” and Adorno “On Lyric Poetry and Society” and thinking about this space (language) as a threshold. An entry point. A door which gives up passage to something. This post, or a poem, as Derrida’s “pri...
He did seem to get off on the wrong foot with folks a fair amount...
Commented Jun 12, 2011 on Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson at The Best American Poetry
Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson
I’ve been thinking about blogging and being a guest and l’étranger and Derrida “On Hospitality” and Adorno “On Lyric Poetry and Society” and thinking about this space (language) as a threshold. An entry point. A door which gives up passage to something. This post, or a poem, as Derrida’s “pri...
Notes toward No, Hello - Cara Benson
Posted Jun 12, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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