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Jack Kerouac. Cut from wood.  (by Loren Kantor)

Jack Kerouac. Cut from wood. 

(by Loren Kantor)

A list of 10 Things Sylvia Plath Loved — including sun-bathing, France, and Marilyn Monroe. Read more > From Plath’s journals: Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. An occasion of ‘chatting’ with audience much as the occasion with Eliot will turn out, I suppose. I spoke, almost in tears, of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us, although they could, of course, not know us at all. She gave me an expert manicure.

A list of 10 Things Sylvia Plath Loved — including sun-bathing, France, and Marilyn Monroe. Read more >

From Plath’s journals:

Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. An occasion of ‘chatting’ with audience much as the occasion with Eliot will turn out, I suppose. I spoke, almost in tears, of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us, although they could, of course, not know us at all. She gave me an expert manicure.
  • Artist: Christian Hawkey, Simone Kearney, John Ashbery
  • TrackName: John Ashbery's Silences
  • Album: How to Continue: Ashbery Across the Arts

The silence between John Ashbery’s readings edited together into the long silence that is itself — via my friends Christian & Simone

Now that’s a log cabin. Lincoln’s log cabin. Today’s Abe’s birthday. Check out his reading list: http://www.poets.org/lincoln

Now that’s a log cabin. Lincoln’s log cabin.

Today’s Abe’s birthday. Check out his reading list: http://www.poets.org/lincoln

“There is occasional singing from the pitch-perfect void” New poetry comic by Bianca Stone in the new Brooklyn Rail

“There is occasional singing from the pitch-perfect void”

New poetry comic by Bianca Stone in the new Brooklyn Rail

Joan Retallack | The Reinvention of Truth$5.00 here Accordian Broadside | Edition circa 200?Printed to commemorate The Inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics.Printed on 100% recycled paper at the San Francisco Center for the Book (editions includes green, blue, and pink variants). Epigraph and textual variations determined by chance operations. 

Joan Retallack | The Reinvention of Truth

$5.00 here 

Accordian Broadside | Edition circa 200?

Printed to commemorate The Inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics.

Printed on 100% recycled paper at the San Francisco Center for the Book (editions includes green, blue, and pink variants).

Epigraph and textual variations determined by chance operations.
 

jenbenka: puppy love. or this by Wislawa Szymborska. Published in “View with a Grain of Sand” Harcourt Brace, 1993

jenbenka:

puppy love. or this by Wislawa Szymborska.

Published in “View with a Grain of Sand” Harcourt Brace, 1993

Six drawings by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

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Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.

Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.