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rob mclennan's blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... own writing than, specifically, the writing included in the collection itself, with pieces by Stephen Burt , Irving Layton , Marianne Moore , E.E. Cummings , Molly Peacock , Allison Calder , Al Purdy , Robert Kroetsch (“The Winnipeg Zoo” is a favourite, I admit), A.A. Milne , Lorna Crozier , David W. McFadden , Susan Howe , Gwendolyn MacEwen , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Lisa...
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... out her website for other collections by her. LA Times on PR’s finale Talking with Tim Gunn Stephen Burt on the Project Runway phenomenon in the current issue of Poetry.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now in its sixth season, you might be surprised to hear that the show holds lessons for poetry critics. To learn them, you first have to know how the TV show works: aspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to show their work in...
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Harriet (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
In his introduction to Something Understood—the recent volume of poems and essays honoring critic Helen Vendler—Stephen Burt notes how her readings of poetry lead her back to the poets themselves. In Vendler’s aesthetics of sympathy, “the effort to understand how a form works as it does, why it moves us, why a poet chose to [...]
