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Daniel Nester
Delmar, NY
Daniel Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His next book, How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction, will be published by Soft Skull Press in Fall 2009.
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Frequency North, Slam Poetry in Albany and Other Readings-Type Things [Daniel Nester]
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Greetings from the Capital Region, 800,000- and four counties-strong. We're north of the Hudson Valley, south of the North Country, west of Western Massachusetts, east of Central New York. So now you know where I come from (or from where... Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Aggressive Swans and 'Squirtier Turkey Basters': Reports from Two Readings in Atlanta by Daniel Nester
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Greetings from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where I am waiting for my flight to the Motor City, where I will connect to my flight home to Albany International Airport, where I will be picked up by my lovely wife and... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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A Poetics Prosody Commonplace Post by Daniel Nester
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-- Eleanor Berry, "The Free Verse Spectrum" "I know some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other? Another will say it wanteth grammar. Nay, truly, it... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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On Two Versions of Robert Creeley's "Self-Portrait" by Daniel Nester
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I. That ambivalent, oblique, laconic way of speaking, it’s very self-defensive, but it thinks of itself as very up-front. A really charming guy last night, one of the musicians, said to me ‘Hey, man, you got a really interesting voice.’... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks, Lisa. It really is a clever book. I contacted the co-author a few years ago to maybe interview him, and then life happened, but I'd still like to ask him questions.
Toggle Commented Sep 14, 2011 on The Policeman’s Beard is (Still) Half Constructed by Daniel Nester at The Best American Poetry
The Policeman’s Beard is (Still) Half Constructed by Daniel Nester
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I am not sure if I would be interested in machine-generated poetry, or poetry at all, if it wasn’t for reading the work of Racter. Short for “Raconteur,” Racter was touted to be the first computer program program to write... Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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W.H. Auden's 'Daydream College for Bards' by Daniel Nester
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Hey there. Daniel Nester here. I've guest-blogged before in this space, so I'll cut to the quick and start posting things. If you want to know more about me and whatnot, check out where I live online as well as... Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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"I Won't" [by Christopher Connelly]
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Sometimes I am a dirty little bird. My feet wrap around branches winds will never clack together. My tongue lies in the splatters of rain that pool in low spots. I swallow what feet say to the ground, and none... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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"Buns" [by Phil Rizzuto]
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-- Phil Rizzuto [from Oh Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto] Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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The evolution of Caddyshack [by Daniel Nester]
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My favorite movie of all time is the 1980 Harold Ramis-directed comedy Caddyshack. It will take too long on this Sunday afternoon post to explain why in full; I will say that I watch it at least two, three times... Continue reading
Posted Oct 11, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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