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Archive of entries posted on 13th November 2009

Weekly Prompt: Directions to My Childhood

Posted by Mia on 13 November 2009, 6:06 pm

In 2008, Florida-based poet Nick Carbo published the poem ”Directions to My Imaginary Childhood” in the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry From the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (eds. Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar).  ”Directions” sweeps the reader through the bustling streets of Manila and then, in an eerily meta-textual moment, onto [...]

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Editors’ Picks: Open Books – A Poem Emporium

Posted by Mia on 13 November 2009, 3:58 pm

A poet’s utopia, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, is a poetry-only bookstore located in Wallingford, Seattle. Owned and run by husband and wife duo John Marshall and Christine Deavel, Open Books is the only bookstore of its kind on the West Coast (the other is in Cambridge, MA). The store’s collection caters to a wide range of poetic sensibilities…

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