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Reading and Rereading "One Tree" by Philip Metres (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Jan 13, 2021 at The Best American Poetry
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How to Make Love, Write Poetry, & Believe in God (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Sep 29, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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The Virtual Poetry Conference [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Sep 4, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Reading Poetry to Ward off the Covid Blues [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Jun 30, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Larissa Szporluk Reports from Domodossola, Italy
1 April, Domodossola First to go were the gatherings. With the gatherings, gone was the sound of the gatherings—the voices, the music, the cars, the vespas, mostly the voices. Once in a while, a sudden band of teenagers rounding a corner or tucked between buildings, laughing, breaking the law by gathering. Then spring came in out of the stopped-dead Carnival—birds, flowers, trees in bloom, everything budding, and then even the teenagers vanished. In came the changing of the guard of sounds. Bells got louder. Birds got louder. The electric saw across town of a man cutting wood got louder. Shutters going up in the morning, down in the evening, deafening. Silence got louder, so much louder that it covered the streets and windows and faces behind the masks of the few people allowed to go out and got into the skin and blood and started to take hope away because here, now, silence is synonymous with death. It isn’t beautiful or zen or musical. It is the song of the virus, of the Carnival it took over, of the virtues and vices of the human race it is eating as it slides across towns and regions and borders and oceans, hunting down people of all ages and shapes, growing stronger and longer as it gathers into itself not our bodies or money or talents or dreams, just our breath. Larissa Szporluk's sixth book of poetry, VIRGINALS, will be published by Burnside Review Press in fall 2020. She teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Three Poets: Elizabeth A. I. Powell, James McCorkle, & Rick Bursky [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Mar 17, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you Sabra! Yes, these are such great poet/poems.
A Virtual AWP [by Nin Andrews]
AWP has come and gone, and as you know, many poets and writers and books sellers and editors missed it, believing it best that they not travel or socialize or present their books or new poems during this time of the coronavirus. I wanted to do a post or two featuring a few of the poets and write...
A Virtual AWP [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Mar 12, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Bittersweet Worlds [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Mar 2, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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A Few Love Poems for Valentine's Day [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Feb 14, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Letters from Russell Edson [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Feb 12, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks for your comments. Interesting about Forche. I have been to El Salvador several times--no memory of what kind of shopping bags were there, but it was such a heart-breakingly beautiful country--the people especially.
A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: a Continuation of an Interview with Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
How did this anthology come about? I’m very proud of A Cast-iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 Contemporary American Poets on Their Prose Poetry. There are many excellent anthologies out there, but I think A Cast-iron Airplane is unique, and I was extremely ...
The Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift: A Constellation of Kisses, Edited by Diane Lockward [by Nine Andrews]
Posted Feb 7, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: a Continuation of an Interview with Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Feb 6, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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An Interview with Prose Poet Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Feb 5, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Tim Seibles on Writing in the Trump Era [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Jan 23, 2020 at The Best American Poetry
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Death, Poetry, and the Three Pigs [by Nin Andrews]
Posted Sep 18, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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The Orange King (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Sep 12, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks David!!
My Trouble with Optimism and an Interview with Shara McCallum (by Nin Andrews)
Lately, I have been having trouble with optimism. And I have been having trouble with my trouble with optimism. I am, quite simply, depressed. I'm not even sure of the role of poetry anymore—both in the world as it is, politically and environmentally speaking, and in the world of po-biz as it is...
An Interview with Sydney Lea (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Sep 11, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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Oh, I still have my Ram Dass--it came out in 71, a year the draft was still in place, the year my college aged brother grew marijuana plants out past the cow pasture--they grew fast, five feet tall and a little more, and he used to smoke pot and read that book aloud and laugh till the tears came.
Does anybody have my Ram Dass? [By Steven Rea]
You know how you lose books, lend books, spill a pot of coffee on books, slip books into Little Libraries around town, put books on the sidewalk in a box marked "Free!" -- never to see them again? There are books I've owned over the years that I don't own now, and most are not missed, but every ...
Thanks Mark!!
Comparing Poets to Dogs (by Nin Andrews)
Last week I mentioned that I often compare poets to dogs. I received a few emails asking me to elaborate. So I want to ask, Am I the only one who thinks this way? Should I teach a seminar on helping poets find their inner dog? There are, after all, just so many similarities between poets and do...
My Trouble with Optimism and an Interview with Shara McCallum (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Sep 9, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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Who Is Your Ideal Audience? Are You Like Your Poems? (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Jun 11, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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An Interview with Dante Di Stefano (by Nin Andrews)
Posted Jun 7, 2019 at The Best American Poetry
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