Yearly Archives: 2011

Bookstores

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June 7, 2011 by author

By Dave Macpherson

We were in Wordsworth’s Books in Harvard Square, where we had been many times before. We were going through the stacks of poetry and I stopped, looked again at what I thought I noticed, and said, “Ah, … Continue reading→

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Invented Forms: the Double Ghazal and Symmetrical Double Abecedarian

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June 5, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Matthew P. Gallant

How to Write a Double Ghazal

A double ghazal follows all the same rules as the regular ghazal, except that instead of just ending the first two lines and then every second line with the same … Continue reading→

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Poem in translation by Asad Zaidi

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May 29, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

The Language of Translation
By Asad Zaidi

What could be a better language than the language of translation
A white curtain on which
All our handiwork stands apart like dirt

All crimes are perpetrated in mother tongues
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Radius: Brendan Constantine, Steve Ramirez, Samuel Rees

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May 28, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

The Editors Write: There are a lot of currents running through Steve Ramirez’s poetry, not the least of which is an omnipresent sense of gentleness, even when he’s training his eye on the roughest of subjects. Ramirez’s diction and the … Continue reading→

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From the “Next … Magazine” Files

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May 27, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

Compiled by G. Murray Thomas

Next … Magazine covered the Southern California poetry scene on monthly basis from 1994 through 1998. In the process, it provided a ground-level view of a transitional period in poetry, in SoCal and nationally. “From … Continue reading→

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