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triplecanopy: Andy Warhol, Hot Dog

triplecanopy:

Andy Warhol, Hot Dog

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Frank Stanford, it’s your birthday. tonight the gars on the trees are swords in the hands of knights the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind is I am waving goodbye

Frank Stanford, it’s your birthday.

tonight the gars on the trees are swords in the hands of knights

the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind

is I am waving goodbye

Poem-A-Day: Arthur Sze’s “Morning Antlers.”

Poem-A-Day: Arthur Sze’s “Morning Antlers.”

A shipwreck is a shipwreck is a…

A shipwreck is a shipwreck is a…

Porch Light (lamp and chair) by Joshua Beckman & Jon Beacham is now finished. Copies are available for sale here:

A book of 27 poems by Joshua Beckman and 8 collages by Jon Beacham. The result of a creative friendship and an ongoing discussion, Porch Light brings together work made between 2009 and 2012. The book was hand set and printed letterpress, with the collages printed color offset. Signatures sewn by hand, and bound into letterpress wrappers. 300 copies. Summer 2012.

ryanmacdonald:

Amy Hempel’s In a Tub, from her collection Reasons to Live, Harper Perennial.

Commissioned by the 12th Annual Juniper Literary Festival.

jenbenka: voices defy symmetry. or this by major jackson from “leaving saturn,” published by the university of georgia press

jenbenka:

voices defy symmetry. or this by major jackson

from “leaving saturn,” published by the university of georgia press

Beach reading.

Beach reading.

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Get lost in a Book. Or 250,000 of them.

Lines 44-45 of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Le Bestiaire (1911) read: Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. (Beautiful days, time’s mice, gnawing little by little my life away.)

Lines 44-45 of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Le Bestiaire (1911) read: Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. (Beautiful days, time’s mice, gnawing little by little my life away.)

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