Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jim Murdoch’s piece on the reader’s responsibility to breathe life into poems is fascinating. At the very least, it’s a good metaphor for people who teach poetry to those who don’t read it much.Here’s...
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Even More Taboo Than Love
C. Dale Young uses this third book to address injustices, the divisions caused by pain, prejudice, and a fractured spirit.I have been trying to pinpoint exactly what made me so much more alert and yes,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era, how attitudes toward drug usage are changing, canzones and elegies and other forms, and...
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The Halo by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young’s fourth book of poetry, The Halo, revolves, most simply, around a young man who has a spinal injury accident that puts him in the hospital with a medical device around his head which he...
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Subtext Rising to the Surface: A Conversation with Matthew Olzmann
In January 2019, I attended the Beloved Poems Panel at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival where I heard Matthew Olzmann speak, in his wise and gentle way, about Lucille Clifton’s poem, “note passed to...
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Notable Online: 4/11–4/17
Sunday 4/11: C. Dale Young, Erin Belieu, Shira Dentz, Keith Kopka, Noah Warren, and Catherine Pierce, with guest host Carrie Olivia Adams, join the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $6 suggested...
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