Archive for November 8th, 2008

Major Jackson, Charles Bernstein, and Cecily Parks…

will be reading at the New School tonight at a reception for the launch of the new issue of American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets. Tickets are $5 and available at the door.
Here’s the address: 65 W. 11th Street, 5th floor, Rm. 550

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This week’s form: the kwansaba

I just found out about this form a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d share it with you. It consists of seven lines with seven words in each line and no word with more than seven characters.
Here’s an explanation of the form via Janet Grace Riehl:
The Kwansaba came into being as a praise song. [...]

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