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The Post National Poetry Month Bold Projects Post: Cristina Garcia's THE LESSER TRAGEDY OF DEATH link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com THE HISTORY OF POETIC biography is a spotty one--especially when it comes to one's own family. What is, after all, the distinction between biography and excavation? Sharon Olds has written movingly and revealingly about her own life, and in part...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: bold poetry projects, Cristina Garcia, poems abotu brothers, good poems of poems, poems about addiction

Published on May 31, 2010

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Bold Poetry Projects: Simone Muench's ORANGE CRUSH link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com I WAS DISAPPOINTED, OF course, when Simone Muench's new book of poems, Orange Crush , turned out not to be about one of my favorite neo-Fanta beverages. But, I was relieved when I realized it was an homage to one of my favorite R.E.M. songs ( I'...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: bold poetry, Simone Muench, bold poetry projects, innovative poems, feminist poetry, review of Orange Crush

Published on May 26, 2010

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The Post National Poetry Month Posts: Bold Projects, James Thomas Stevens, A BRIDGE DEAD IN THE WATER link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com div class= separator style= clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman ,serif; text-align: justify; I'VE NEVER READ A book like James Thomas Stevens' A Bridge Dead in the Water. And, I mean that as a compliment. It's really not like anyt...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: American Indian Poetry, bold poetry, James Thomas Stevens, Native American Poetry, politics and poetry, experimental poetry

Published on May 16, 2010

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The Post National Poetry Month Bold Projects Post: Joan Houlihan's The Us link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com div style= font-family: Trebuchet MS ,sans-serif; Us nest fine a weather long between the heat of kin the least of us in huts built round with stones. A sky-hole takes the cook-smoke through div style= font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman ,seri...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Fiona Simpson and The Us, Joan Houlihan, Poetry Magazine, Twin Peaks and American poetry, Brave Books of Poems, The Us

Published on May 10, 2010

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Post-National Poetry Month Posts link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com NOW THAT NATIONAL POETRY Month has come to a close, I can now start posting about poetry again. Sure, I could have written about poems during the spotlight month, but tiny 'ol TWR would have gotten lost in the tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk o...

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Topics: daring books of poems, Provocative books of poems, interesting books of poems

Published on May 10, 2010

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Ice Kobe: A Guest Post by Scott Andrews link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com ICE KOBE: A Guest Post by Scott Andrews One of our favorite guest posters is back, just in time for the NBA playoffs. Here, he writes about a particularly interesting image of Kobe Bryant, whose Los Angeles Lakers are, at present battling the mor...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: NBA and gangsters, Gangster Kobe, Kobe Bryant, Kobe and guns

Published on May 01, 2010

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When Poetry Gets Political link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com DATELINE, LONDON. JUST LIKE IN THE U.S., a controversy over a poetry professorship is a major news story in England. I love it when the Boston Globe , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times write about the importance of poetry professors ...

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Published on Mar 25, 2010

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A Faded Star at Baylor link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com NOTHING ROUSES THE BLOGGER out of a post-holiday hiatus like news that Ken Starr has been named the new president of his alma mater. It's true. The man who whose investigation of the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals engendered President Bi...

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Topics: Baylor and education, Baylor University and Ken Star

Published on Feb 22, 2010

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Best Books of Poetry, 2009 link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com APOLOGIES FOR CRIBBING MY own list from the San Francisco Chronicle , but deadlines and grading take precedent over originality. I'll call special attention to my stocking stuffers--excellent books of poems that may fly under the radar of most li...

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Topics: best books of 2009, best books of poems, best american poetry 2009, best poetry of the year, best collections of poetry 2009, top poetry books 2009, best poetry 2009

Published on Dec 21, 2009

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Onward Christian Assassins or “Oh, Lord, please do that voodoo that you do so well” - A Guest Post by Scott Andrews link
weeklyrader.blogspot.com OUR FRIEND SCOTT ANDREWS is back with another guest post. Last time it was about werewolves; this time, voodoo. Recently a Southern Baptist preacher from California was in the news because he was praying for the death of President Barack Obama . ...

Blog post by Dean Rader

Topics: Wiley Drake, Obama and religion, preacher wants Obama dead, Steve Anderson, Praying for Obama's Death

Published on Dec 10, 2009

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