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New Salamander Poems
Annie Wyndham has posted a fresh batch of poems over at Salamander Cove, selected from her reading both on and off line. Fine work by Bob Arnold, Bill Knott, Joel E. Jacobson, John Levy and more.Read More
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Actualities
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.” This is just one of the terrific sentences from a letter Charles Bukowski wrote in response to one of his books being removed from a public library in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Read the rest of the letter here.Read More
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Hypocralert 2
http://longhousepoetryandpublishers.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Bob Arnold for pointing me to this one.Read More
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An Old God and a Demon
Today Bob Arnold posted this wonderful poem by Bertolt Brecht. It reminded me of two others of his that I happen to love, drawn from Bertolt Brecht: Poems, 1913-1956: The God of War I saw the old god of war stand in a bog between chasm and rockface. He smelled of free beer and carbolic and showed his testicles to adolescents, for he had been rejuvenated by several professors. In a hoarse wolfish voice he declared his love for everything young.Read More
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An Interview with Ce Rosenow
I reviewed Ce’s book Pacific awhile back, and earlier wrote about her work as co-editor (with Bob Arnold) of Cid Corman’s The Next One Thousand Years.Read More
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What Poetry Is For
If you don’t know the amazing poems of Bob Arnold (see here, here, here and here), and even if you do, I want to urge you toward this one.Read More
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Tightrope and Knott
When you start thinking about money and success in publishing poetry you may as well be a tightrope walker who thinks about falling. These and other illuminations, some regarding the esteemed, irascible, and tenderhearted Bill Knott, in today’s post on Bob Arnold’s blog, A Longhouse Birdhouse.Read More
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A New Blog…
Just discovered a new blog, by one of my favorite poets, Bob Arnold. It’s called A Longhouse Birdhouse.Read More
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By the Light of a Page (Updated)
This review appeared in the January/February 2009 Issue of The Bloomsbury Review. ©2009 by Joseph Hutchison. NOTE: A correction and some additional information has been appended to this post as of 01/21/09. The Next One Thousand Years: The Selected Poems of Cid Corman By Cid Corman Edited by Ce Rosenow and Bob Arnold 207 pages, paper ISBN-13: 978-1-929048-08-3 ISBN-10: 1-929048-08-4 Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers 1604 River Road Guilford, VT 05301 All strong poets ground their work in their own “significant tradition”: an idiosyncratic, even contrarian view of what really matters in the history of their art.Read More