Audrey Rose

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I have some poems in summer stock #8 which is full of lots of greats like hoa nguyen, charles bernstein, ben hersey, j/j hastain, patrick pritchett and more. 

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This country is sick.

Burn it down.

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In two weeks!

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Mitch and I are tabling at Boston Zine Fest for No Infinite. Come get some zines.

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Lisa Hanawalt

Faster Pussycat Dance Dance! 

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source

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THIS IS EVERYTHING.

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Boston Poetry Marathon Aug 8-10. 1 million poets. Gonna be a real barnburner. 

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Boston Poetry World Cup Inman Square, Cambridge

Friday August 8th at the Lilly Pad http://lilypadinman.com/

Saturday and Sunday August 9-10 Outpost 186 http://www.outpost186.com/

Free and Open to the Public (but we will pass the hat)

Millions of poets read for 8 minutes and then...

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A delicious buffet!

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drawing by hunter payne

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SIQ READING ALERT.

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poem by shannon burns from notnostrums

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my eternal jam

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Drawing by Josephine Demme

Fiction Seminar

Ben Marcus

Technologies of Heartbreak 

This seminar will examine how emotion is attempted and transmitted in fiction, the various ways readers are captured and made to care about a story.  Emotional effects—rapture, sympathy, desire, empathy, fascination, grief, repulsion—will be considered as techniques of language, enabled or muted by narrative context, acoustics, phrasing, and our own predispositions.  How can a sentence, a phrase, a paragraph cause us to feel things, and is a high degree of feeling akin to “liking” a book?  What is it to care about a character or the progress of a story, and how was that care installed in us?  What are the various kinds and sequences of sentences that, when placed in a narrative, can produce emotional engagement in a reader, affection or distraction, or is it impossible to isolate our reaction to a book in terms of its language?  The focus will be on some rhetorical strategies novelists and story writers have used to impart feeling, among them: concealment, indirection, revelation, confession, flat affect, irony, hyperbole, repetition, sentimentality, elusiveness, and sincerity.  A tentative book list follows. 

2/4 - Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

2/11 - Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell

2/18 - Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor 2/25 - A Personal Matter - Kenzabarō Ōe

3/1 - Jernigan - David Gates 3/4  - Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

3/11 - The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald 3/25 -  Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson 

4/1 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

4/8 - The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing

4/22 - Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

4/29 - The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles

5/6 - Correction - Thomas Bernhard

See an interview with Ben Marcus about the syllabus.

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<a href="http://streetgnar.bandcamp.com/album/shrine-ep" data-mce-href="http://streetgnar.bandcamp.com/album/shrine-ep">Shrine EP by Street Gnar</a>

V. good vibes last night at the Whitehaus. 

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Figure, Jean Day, from A Young Recruit