June 28, 2008
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Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, Sarabande Books, 2008. Paula Bohince has received a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, the Grolier Poetry Prize, residencies from the MacDowell Colony, and the
June 25, 2008
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For those out there who, like me, are devastated by the loss of George Carlin, here is a link to his last interview. It’s a wonderful and insightful discussion of
June 25, 2008
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NBCC member Meehan Crist, reviews editor at The Believer, has these picks for the NBCC Good Reads Spring 2008 list, recommendations by NBCC members, awards winners and finalists, thus ending
June 24, 2008
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The following essay by Joy Katz on Carl Phillips, whose Cortège was a finalist for the 1995 NBCC award in poetry, is part of the NBCC’s “In Retrospect” series on
June 24, 2008
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Joy Katz suggests these links for more on Carl Phillips, subject of her “In Retrospect” essay: You can hear Phillips reading “Leda, After the Swan” here. Ploughshares published a good
June 21, 2008
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Controlled Decay, Akashic Books, 2008. Gabriela Jauregui was born and raised in Mexico City. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is
June 14, 2008
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At the Drive-In Volcano, Tupelo Press. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano, winner of the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit, which was the winner of the
June 12, 2008
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NBCC intern and University of Memphis MFA student Pat Walters recently spoke with Brendan Koerner, whose new (and first) nonfiction book, Now The Hell Will Start, is fresh out from
June 10, 2008
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NBCC poetry finalist Jane Hirshfield’s pick for the NBCC Good Reads Spring 2008 list, recommendations by NBCC members, awards winners and finalists: I’ve been finding Julia Hartwig’s “In Praise of
June 7, 2008
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Causeway, New Issues Press, 2008. Elaine Sexton is also the author of Sleuth (New Issues Press, 2003). Her recent poems and reviews appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review,