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Parallel Universe
All right. Take my temperature. Check my pulse. I seem to have awakened in a parallel universe where dog droppings are served as pâté. Or maybe I’m just in a curmudgeonly mood.Read More
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Walt Whitman on PBS
The April 14 broadcast of The American Experience on PBS will focus on Walt Whitman.Read More
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New Poet Laureate Aaron Anstett
Springs area gets its first poet laureate, Aaron AnstettApril 2, 2008 – 6:20PMBy BILL REED | THE GAZETTE For an area that inspired one of the country’s most beloved poems, “America the Beautiful,” the Pikes Peak region hasn’t paid much tribute to poets — until now. On Wednesday, with Pikes Peak framed behind him, Aaron Anstett was named the region’s first-ever poet laureate in a ceremony at the East Library. [More] Samplings of Aaron Anstett’s poetry can be found here and here.Read More
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Reading on April 4 in Denver
I’ll be reading some of my poems in tandem with the most excellent Renée Ruderman on Friday, April 4, between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., at the corner of Santa Fe Drive and 8th Avenue.Read More
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More On Cid Corman
Elsewhere on this blog I noted the publication of The Next One Thousand Years, Selected Poems of Cid Corman. Here you’ll find more information about Corman, and about the other efforts by his Selected’s co-editor Bob Arnold toward preserving Corman’s legacy. In this effort, Bob Arnold is carrying on a historic tradition of dedicated lovers of fine literature who labor—without institutional sinecure or monetary reward—to ensure that the work of neglected writers survives long enough to find the wider audience it deserves.Read More
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A Welcome New Selection of Cid Corman’s Poetry
Longhouse Publishers is about to release an important new selection of poems by the prolific Cid Corman, who passed away in 2004. The Next One Thousand Years, Selected Poems of Cid Corman is edited Ce Rosenow and Bob Arnold, have done a beautiful job of gathering poems that represent the prolific Corman at his best—and at his best, Corman produced powerful, sleek, transparent poems that make us feel we’re witnessing fresh realizations as they come into being.Read More