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Date: April 19, 2021
On April 17 at the Hayti Heritage Center, seven slam poets competed for a coveted spot on the 2021 Bull City Slam Team. These poets are a part of the […]
Date: April 19, 2021
On April 17 at the Hayti Heritage Center, seven slam poets competed for a coveted spot on the 2021 Bull City Slam Team. These poets are a part of the […]
Date: April 19, 2021
There are so many wonderful books coming out this month we just want to rave about them all! Since April is National Poetry Month, we included three poetry collections by […]
Date: April 19, 2021
Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but […]
Date: April 19, 2021
Please enjoy these readings on our first ever virtual poetry “stage” produced in partnership with Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Be sure to scroll through the entire page, as there are several […]
Date: April 15, 2021
At dozens of cafes, libraries and bookstores — even a garage in Bell — Southern California teemed with poetry readings and open mike nights before COVID-19 took hold of the world. Some […]
Date: April 15, 2021
For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women […]
Date: April 15, 2021
How does trauma affect the way we live our day-to-day lives? Is inherited or intergenerational trauma more significant than a trauma—or traumas—experienced firsthand? There are perspectives and arguments to consider […]
Date: April 15, 2021
Take a moment and watch Cynthia Hogue read in celebration of The Arkansas International’s Issue 10 Launch!! Cynthia Hogue’s most recent collections are Revenance (2014), listed as one of the 2014 “Standout” […]
Date: April 14, 2021
SADIE HOAGLAND: John, I so enjoyed reading The Fear of Everything. Each story balances humor and darkness so well, and each piece held the sort of “good surprises” I love in fiction—the […]
Date: April 14, 2021
Ep 33 – Talking about Money & Wealth w/ Jennifer Risher What’s your relationship with money? How about your partner’s relationship with money? Do you talk about it? Does it […]
Date: May 6, 2009
"Green is an intensely formal poet–not in tone, but in construction. Look at that table of contents again: five groups of ten. A desire for symmetry, some revelatory order. He […]
Date: May 6, 2009
Dan Wickett, on the widely-read blog for his Emerging Writers Network, lists Earthquake I.D. as one of the best books of 2007, and awards it 4 stars. "A great, jam-packed […]
Date: May 6, 2009
Praise for Earthquake I.D. from Thomas Burke, in THE LITERARY REVIEW (50/3, Spring 2007): "an exploration of contrasts: opulence and destitution; the loved, the loving, and the dissatisfied; intractable guilt, […]
Date: May 2, 2009
"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]