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A Conversation With Award-Winning Poet Matthew Zapruder

Dean Rader | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Works & Days, Come on All You Ghosts, Poetic Craft, Wallace Stevens, Contemporary American Poetry, Matthew Zapruder, R.E.M., Poetry, San Francisco News
Dean Rader

Matthew Zapruder is one of the Bay Area's most interesting poets. He and I recently had an interesting conversation about poetry, poetic craft, and the reader.

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Finding Relief in Poetry's Icebox

John Lundberg | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: American Poetry, Robert Frost, Winter Poetry, Winter Poems, John Keats, Wallace Stevens, Poetry, Poetry Winter, Books News
John Lundberg

Here, for all of you fellow summer sufferers, are four very cold poems that might help you imagine some relief from the heat (and distract you from the fact that it isn't even August).

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Literary Late Bloomers: Great Authors Who Took A Little Longer To Get Started (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Henry Miller, Wallace Stevens, Writers, Charles Bukowski, Poets, William S. Burroughs, Late Bloomers, Slidepollajax, Raymond Chandler, Poetry, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anthony Burgess, Books News

Not everyone can be a literary prodigy. There are plenty of authors who didn't reach publishing success until mid-life, or later. There's a fantastic...

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Literary Fisticuffs! Flying Fists And Zinging Words: Nobody Fights Like An Angry Writer (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Sartre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, Camus, Slidepollajax, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, c.s. Lewis, Norman Mailer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Books News

Stereotypically, artists are stormy, temperamental, and moody. These literary figures feed the stereotype with their classic feuds. We asked readers...

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A Poet's Christmas List

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Holiday Seasonm Holidays, Poets, Knopf, Wallace Stevens, David Starkey, Poem, Poetry, Christmas, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

David Starkey of the Santa Barbara Independent listed ten poetry books he finds fit for giving this season. The new Wallace Stevens collection stands out for me.

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'Project Runway' And Poetry

The Poetry Foundation | Stephen Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Auden, Poets, Wallace Stevens, Project Runway, Poems, Poetry, William Wordsworth, Poetry Critics, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Books, Books News

Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now i...

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