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Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Dale M. Smith

The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson.

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Robert Duncan & Charles Olson

    How does this business of kind and kin go?

  • Essay
    By Karin Roffman

    An excerpt from a new biography showcases John Ashbery’s early years.

  • Interview
    By Stacey Lynn Brown

    Margarita Engle, the new Young People’s Poet Laureate, found her home in books.

  • Poem Guide
    By Camille Guthrie

    A poet uses a punctuation mark to plot a crime.

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By Brian Lucas

I have never been to Ontario. My only experience with Canada occurred a couple decades ago: we drove from Hemet, California to Victoria, British Columbia in a Ford Bronco. I remember seeing a famous Canadian’s house from atop a red...

  • By Brian Lucas

    I want to point a beam of light towards a sample from the gallery ephemera files and a unique poet’s object that are both...

  • By Brian Lucas

    I met Julien only a few years ago through mutual friends who rightfully assumed we’d hit it off. One day, we took a stroll...

  • By Brian Lucas

    Like many people, I discovered Raymond Pettibon’s artwork through his ink drawings that were used on a few SST Records album covers, most notably...

  • By erica lewis

    When I decided to do this series of interviews based on how poet and scholar Tyrone Williams defines and depicts our "generations" in his...

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  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Dale M. Smith

    The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson.

  • Prose from Poetry Magazine
    By Robert Duncan & Charles Olson

    How does this business of kind and kin go?

  • Essay
    By Karin Roffman

    An excerpt from a new biography showcases John Ashbery’s early years.

  • Interview
    By Stacey Lynn Brown

    Margarita Engle, the new Young People’s Poet Laureate, found her home in books.

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