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Michael Brown & Edgar Kunz Poetry Reading - March 10th

3/10/2019, 4:00 pm at Bird in Hand - 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218

A longtime resident of the Bronx, Michael Brown studies at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library. ... [ read more ]

Thea Brown Reading

Watch the debut reading in our new series! February 10, 2019. The HOT L Open is a reading series held on the second Sunday of the month at Bird in ... [ read more ]

Anthony DiMatteo, Smartish Pace Reading

Anthony DiMatteo reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 18 party at Cyclops in Baltimore on May 6, 2011. Introduction by SP's Clare Banks.

Interview with Denise Duhamel

CHIMERA: an interview with Denise Duhamel by Karla Huston (Note: this interview was conducted via email between January and May 2004.) Denise Duhamel’s poetry has been described as stunning, suggestive, and startling. Rain Taxi says, "Duhamel’s careful yet freewheeling musings employ a seamlessly shifting digital palette of techniques, devices, and tones, all in the service of a poet able to maintain distance yet remain engaged and human. She is much like this last-call century of ours, searching for the point from which to take a running leap to a new kind of poetry.” Her poems speak with a wild irreverence. Not afraid of critics and naysayers, Duhamel experiments with form and subject, creating poetry that challenges the reader’s notion of what poetry should be. She presents what poetry could be as she fully engages pop culture, the joys and horrors of it, while maintaining the ability to poke fun at our foibles—and make us think. Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Mille et Un Sentiments, a limited edition chapbook (Firewheel Editions), were both published in 2005. ... [ read more ]

AWP Day 1

3/28/2019 (9:00am) -- (5:00pm)

Portland - Table T6051

Visit us at T6051 for poetry, fun, and games! 

Shara Lessley: Two-Headed Nightingale

One of the central concerns pervading Percy Shelley’s A Defense of Poetry is the idea of vital metaphor, that poetic aspect that makes the serious poet’s work different from amateurs, or those searching for personal vainglory. For Shelley, vital metaphor leads to the truest form of expression, the expression allowing a poet to move past him/herself and into participation with “the one, the infinite, the eternal.” Shelley is, of course, talking about the collective ... [ read more ]