Saturday, May 15, 2010

Food and Flea



The guide has excellent recommendations for die-hard shoppers and shoppers interested in bargains, as well as collectors, craft aficionados and, last but not least, gourmets—many of NYC’s favorite neighborhood chefs and bakers regularly debut their innovative cuisine at these markets.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

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The book covers a wide swath from Wharton, Melville, Whitman and the rest of the usual suspects, to topics such as African-American literary movements, staging gay and lesbian New York, and a look at the East Village's poetry and punk traditions. The editors and contributors make this an illuminating, essential read.

Further Adventures in the Restless Universe in Stores

Further Adventures in the Restless Universe
"Readers have come to expect from Dawn Raffel’s prose nothing less than the syllable-by-syllable perfections of purest poetry and the boldest wisdom a human heart can hold. Her new collection of pithy, exquisite fictions about the timeless crises of mothers, daughters, and wives is breathtaking and haunting in its majestic exactitudes."
Gary Lutz

National Short Story Month

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Best of the Web 2010

Best of the Web 2010

The Taste of Penny

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From the Poetry Center Archive: William Carlos Williams

The first-ever Poetry Center reading was given by William Carlos Williams in October of 1939. Though Dr. Williams read at the Poetry Center many times over the years, there is only one audio recording of him here-- an appearance in January of 1954. This newly-posted recording is an excerpt of that evening. In this selection, Williams reads "A Sort of A Song," "The Maneuver," "Seafarer," "The Three Graces," "Paterson, Episode 17," "The Descent" and "Fish."

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Cellpoems is a poetry journal distributed via text message.

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Browse a list of twenty popular poems to teach, along with poems that demonstrate imagery, irony, forms and traditions, narrative, and cultural context, as well as recommendations for memorization and performance.
Bring Poets.org Notebooks into the classroom, or browse others' and discover which poems leave a lasting impression.

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