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Asymptote Profiles Ugly Duckling Presse, which btw is having a rent party in a few days

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Scott Hightower reviews All Night it Is Morning by Andy Young

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Missed this amazing Harriet post by Amy King from last week: 

What is Literary Activism?

Followed up by this response by the Harriet staff:

Responding to ‘What is Literary Activism?’

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Announcing the 2015 Ruth Lilly Prize winner, Alice Notley!

“What I’ve been getting as voice for a few years is more like voices. I am so empty from all the things I’ve been through in my life, and from living in a foreign culture that remains forever foreign, that I am bombarded constantly by other voices when I sit down to write. I kind of don’t have a self now…”

–Alice Notley in a Q&A that includes more images of her collages and book covers

The $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the nation’s largest literary prizes, recognizes the outstanding lifetime achievement of a living U.S. poet. On poetryfoundation.org you can find:

A Press Release about Notley and the prize. Alice Notley’s Biography A Podcast interview with Alice Notley “Talk to the Dead,” a Q&A with Alice Notley by Adam Plunkett Poems by Alice Notley, including new audio poems

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-Langston Hughes

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Like peanut butter & jelly: Sandals Resorts and Poetry 

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‘Red Bodies’ by Francesco Aprile

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Poet William Jay Smith Dies at 97

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‘Total Lyric,’ a Poetry Workshop Run by Ana Božičević at The Bowery Poetry Club

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The Academy of American Poets Launches ‘Teach This Poem’

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Must-must-read: Lily Duffy in the newest TENDERLOIN

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“I’ve had Glenn Gould’s double disc of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in my car for three years. It never gets old. Gould twice tackled this famously difficult piece: for his first studio recording in 1955 and again in 1981, just before his death.”

Read the rest of Chad Reynolds’ commentary on these two recordings over at this week’s Poets Off Poetry Song of the Week.

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Panoply Books to Hold Poetry Festival in September

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“I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn’t just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it’s violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.” ― Claudia Rankine

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browse an alphabetized list of artists last names that have been featured on visual-poetry.tumblr.com in the past five years

find about 1000 artists and poets including their homepages, wikipedia articles, blogs etc.

artists written in bold have been featured with three or more works

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"Here, images are able to shift and become in the mind, apart from being tied down to any gravity of an actual plane. An imaginary sensory apprehension of experience where something can be put together just as observation takes it apart. In this instance, it is right to unencumber the poem from commas, periods, or other punctuation. Each of these well-bound lyrics demands its own rules and functions. For all of its play, KINGDOM doesn’t fall short of its own technical philosophy."

Alex Rieser on Noah Eli Gordon’s The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press).