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Daniel Nester
Delmar, NY
Daniel Nester is the author of Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press 2015). He teaches writing at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
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Poetry on Vinyl: Michèlle T. Clinton and Wanda Coleman, Black/Angeles [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Jul 19, 2021 at The Best American Poetry
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I am such a fan of these squibs I can't even. Please tell me there will be a collected!
Fragments 148-156 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
A child watches with delight as the worker bangs away at plaster: loud noise, destruction, making a mess—and it’s all right with everyone. In our first stay in Paris, each night I stop at La Tonnelle, the grocery store across the street, where I can never get the right money to the grizzled m...
And what better way to promote an open mic than on a 12-month-old post and not mention the city!
20 Things Not to Do at an Open Poetry Reading [by Daniel Nester]
1. Write your name illegibly on the sign-up sheet. 2. Complain to host when he/she can’t read/pronounce your last name. 3. Go over the allotted time, so much so that you are mistaken for the “featured” reader, who has traveled three hours on an interstate to promote her most recent book, an...
Notes on the Poetry Project, January 1, 1992 [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 6, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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20 Things Not to Do at an Open Poetry Reading [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 5, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Some Words on 'Some Words on My Hatred of Cheese' c. 1991 [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 4, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks, Stacey. I go on Joan jags for weeks at a time. 'Lucky' is such a super song.
The Weakness in Me: Notes on Joan Armatrading [by Daniel Nester]
There are certain albums I pair exclusively with cassettes. I doubt there will be a tape revival anytime soon, at least as big as the current vinyl boom. Still, people of a certain age, myself included, continue to dub copies and take out write-protect tabs in our dreams. My personal cassette ...
The Weakness in Me: Notes on Joan Armatrading [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 3, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Inside the First Cover of Bohemian Rhapsody: An Interview with Tony Rivers [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 2, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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An Interview with Richard Schober, Editor of The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Mar 12, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
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Photos from February 1 Incredible Sestina Anthology Launch at Poets House [Daniel Nester]
Posted Feb 14, 2014 at The Best American Poetry
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An Interview with Brooklyn Poets Founder Jason Koo about The Bridge [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Nov 5, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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Meeting Flossie Williams on the Empire Line [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Oct 25, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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ASS Ball at OLPH, Maple Shade, NJ, c. 1981 [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Oct 24, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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An Apprentice’s Tale: On Philip Levine [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Oct 22, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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Introduction to The Incredible Sestina Anthology [by Daniel Nester]
Posted Oct 21, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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Frequency North, Slam Poetry in Albany and Other Readings-Type Things [Daniel Nester]
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
Posted Sep 17, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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A Poetics Prosody Commonplace Post by Daniel Nester
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
Posted Sep 14, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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W.H. Auden's 'Daydream College for Bards' by Daniel Nester
Posted Sep 12, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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"I Won't" [by Christopher Connelly]
Posted Oct 17, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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"Buns" [by Phil Rizzuto]
Posted Oct 14, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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