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Edgar Kunz Reading Video! 3/10/19

Watch our last reading here!  [ read more ]

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 ]

Jennifer Wallace, Poetry Reading

Jennifer Wallace reading at CityLit in the Poe Room of the Pratt Library in Baltimore. April 14, 2012. Intro by Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert.

Interview with Christopher Buckley

In his new book, Star Apocrypha, the poet Christopher Buckley reaches for a higher lyric pitch and succeeds exponentially. Buckley's poetry addresses matters of this world and of the soul, daily life and the lifeof the imagination with brilliant language and finesse. His poems perform aneloquent dance between memory and the here and now, turning time into the verysame stuff as the clouds and stars.In the following interview, the poet discusses contemporary poetry and his latest book, Star Apocrypha.Maggie Paul: Can you recall some of your earliest experiences with poetry and how they influenced your decision to become a poet?Christopher Buckley: My earliest memory of poetry is from Mt. Carmel School in Montecito fourth grade, fifth? I wrote a poem for Mother’s Day in class, the nun passing out white paper and blue construction paper to paste it on. I remember this because I found it years later in a trunk, my mother had saved it. It was in fact in quatrains rhyming abab, three or four of them with sunlight and bluebirds flying about the edges of the stanzas. I think I came across it while I was in college ... [ read more ]

I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

This first book of poems by Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone(Turtle Point Press, 2006), gives a hint of its wit in the title.   Is the tone urgent?  Or a little fed up?  Does it imply the connection between writer and reader has been irrevocably broken?  Who doesn’t dream of being able to deliver perfect, fully persuasive communication?  Or, who does?  The author of these poems is a post-modern, ... [ read more ]