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“Set Dem Free Again”: Duppy Conqueror and the Invocation of Legacy by Corinna McLeod

A part of Respect Due: Symposium on the Work of Kwame Dawes Corinna McLeod   “Set Dem Free Again”: Duppy Conqueror and the Invocation of Legacy Kwame Dawes is an award winning poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, reggae artist and scholar. His conquest of genre is representative of the diversity in his background, which in […]

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Press Note: Literary Magazines and the Editorial Process with James Byrne

In this new series, editors of the Poetry International Chapbook Series and Poetry International staff will discuss the process of running a contemporary press and literary journal: from collaborating with fellow editors to navigating design technologies to promoting a new publication, and all the spaces in between. Literary Magazines and the Editorial Process with James

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Book Review: Induced Coma by Harold Jaffe

Induced Coma by Harold Jaffe   170 pages Anti-Oedipus Press, 2014, $7.95 ISBN: 978-0-9892391-6-5   Reviewed by Cassandra Beckwith From “Holy Seaman” to “Obama,” to “World Peace,” to “Queef,” Harold Jaffe’s Induced Coma takes you on a whirlwind ride through his innovative, astonishing “micro-stories.” From the first glance, this book reads like a morning Facebook news feed:

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Book Review: Death Café by Harold Jaffe

Death Cafe by Harold Jaffe Anti-Oedipus Press, 2015 ISBN: 9780990573357 Reviewed by Andrew O’Clancy Making space for the difficult realities of the oppressed in stunning language that echoes across different generations, numerous geographic spaces, and the layering of multiple narrative points of view, including victims, their loved ones, and the torturers themselves, Harold Jaffeʼs widely

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Book Review: Missing Witness by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Translated by Bradley Schmidt

Missing Witness by Ulrike Almut Sandig Translated by Bradley Schmidt   30 pages Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015, $12   Reviewed by Sara Aslagson-Sahar   When I picked up the chapbook Missing Witness by Ulrke Almut Sandig, translated from the original German by Bradley Schmidt, the first thing my hands noticed was the texture of the

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Book Review: Cast Off by Daniel Simon

  Cast Off Daniel Simon 62 pages Edwin E. Smith Publishing, September 24, 2015 ISBN: 978-0991090488 Reviewed by Hélène Cardona Daniel Simon’s Harvest of Words “Tilled into Existence” Daniel Simon’s rich language and bristling erudition permeate Cast Off, a poetry collection composed of thirty-three superbly crafted poems, which take us on a remarkable, unexpected journey towards

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Book Review: Cloud 9 by Jesse Nathan

– Cloud 9 by Jesse Nathan – Dikembe Press ISBN:1110000209041– – Available through DikembePress.com Reviewed by Christopher J. Adamson I enjoy a good disavowal; they reveal more than they deny, they create a bit of negative space by which one can be defined. Reading Jesse Nathan’s Cloud 9 (Dikembe Press 2015), I am perhaps strangely,

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Dispatch 5, Winter, Republic of Uzupis: Crossroads of World Poetry 2016

The Republic of Užupis exists independently in the heart of Vilnius…a bohemian port with its own mermaid and angel…home to artists and vagrants, gentry, moonshine, ravens, one buzzard, and pigeons, and especially to poetry…its Independence Day is April 1st…it once gave birth to a 300 kg egg…it predates and postdates the Known, the Unknown, and

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Marine Petrossian translated from Armenian with the author and Interviewed by Arthur Kayzakian

ԵՍ ՈՒԶՈՒՄ ԷԻ ԿԱՌՈՒՑԵԼ ՔԱՂԱՔ Նրանց համար ովքեր տուն չունեն նրանց համար ովքեր տուն ունեն բայց հոգնել են արդեն դրանից եւ ուզում են տուն չունենալ Նրանց համար ովքեր կորցնելու ոչինչ չունեն արդեն կամ էլ չեն ունեցել երբեւէ նաեւ նրանց համար ովքեր էնքան շատ բան ունեն կորցնելու որ հոգնել են արդեն վախենալուց Ես ուզում էի կառուցել

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Tracing Bachmann’s Shadow: One Writer’s Notebook on Translation

Hanna Mangold writes fiction, poetry, and essays. She is the Fiction Editor for Folio Magazine, and teaches College Writing at American University where she is also a third-year MFA candidate. Her work has been featured in Sans Merci, and at literary conferences in Shepherdstown, WV. She has two cats and two stories forthcoming at Hobart. Tracing Bachmann’s Shadow: One Writer’s Notebook

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