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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 ]

David Keplinger, Smartish Pace Reading

David Keplinger reading for Smartish Pace & Barrelhouse at Artomatic in Washington, DC on June 12, 2009. Intro by Dan Brady of Barrelhouse.

Interview with Shara McCallum

Magdelyn Hammond: When did you start writing poetry? Have you always considered yourself a poet, or are there parts of yourself that were always a poet even before you started to write seriously? Shara McCallum: I started writing poetry seriously about the same time I came to Maryland. I was almost 22 then. I had always written poetry, as far back as I can remember, but I think of that period as marking my beginnings as a writer because it was when I began to consider the craft of a poem consciously and deliberately. I don't know when I began to think of myself as a poet -- that's not a word I use very often in relation to myself. I say I write poetry but rarely say I am a poet. I'm not afraid of the word per se but the phrase "I am a poet" seems somewhat static and stilted. Writing poetry is something I see as active whereas being a poet makes me think of someone sitting around waiting for inspiration or someone posing in some fashion as a "poet." As to the other ways I was becoming a "poet" before really being serious about ... [ read more ]

The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife

Joan Kane’s visionary first collection, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, renders the Alaskan landscape without imposing a human meaning on life in the wilderness; in the process, Kane succeeds, more successfully than many contemporary poets writing about the natural world today, in preserving that landscape's distinctive and often keenly unsettling otherness. In the opening poem, "The Sunken Forests": I recite the ice that has thrown The river over its banks And move through a terrain Of ... [ read more ]