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Aug 19, 2011 NIGHTMORNINGSKY
by Peter Cooley
I'd like to see the tree as it once stood
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Spotlight Poet
Peter Gizzi
About his work, the critic Marjorie Perloff has said: "In his visionary quest, his raw emotion, and his New York school spontaneity, Gizzi performs a clinamen that relates him to O'Hara, Ashbery, and, beyond these poets, to Rimbaud and Hart Crane..."

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The Mark

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Spotlight Essay
Modern Life: Matthea Harvey in Conversation

"I don't find the 'autobiographical me' very interesting—I work much more from my ideas than from my actual experiences. On the other hand, I'm often enthralled by other people's 'I's..."

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News of the World

by Philip Levine
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