The Meal
by Martha Rhodes • from The Beds • Autumn House Press
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Martha RhodesMartha Rhodes is the author of At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance (Green Rose Prize), and Mother Quiet. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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The Beds"These poems, grim and wise, never arrive in the guise of the Good Girl. And for that brand of honesty, I am most grateful." (Cate Marvin)
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"The Anglo-Saxon riddles had no solutions, as though resolution was not their aim. They ask readers to believe many interpretations at once. What's black and white and red all over? A sunburnt penguin. A sunburnt nun. A newspaper. Riddles work because language keeps moving, won't sit still. Anglo-Saxon poetry, even at its most devotional, engages language's propensity to travel."
—Lytton Smith MORE
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NoViolet Bulawayo
Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
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Ross Taylor remembers his mother, Eleanor Ross Taylor.
John Banville on The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett.
Robert Pinsky introduces Herman Melville's "The Maldive Shark."
James Crews introduces John Hollander's "Twice Told Tale."
Playing Gods: Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" and the politics of fiction, by Andrew Feldherr, reviewed by William Fitzgerald.
The Complete Poems, by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett, reviewed by Fiona Sampson.
Sameer Rahim on how poet-editors can shape the literary landscape.
Ted Kooser presents Edward Hirsch's "I Was Never Able To Pray."
Carol Rumens introduces Tomas Tranströmer's "Six Winters."
David Biespiel calls for a "poetry of poise" and introduces A. E. Stallings's "Fear of Happiness."
Lisa Russ Spaar introduces excerpts from Ye Chun’s "Map."
Adam Newey reviews Selected Poems, by Christopher Reid.
Christopher Cokinos remembers Robinson Jeffers on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Peter Campion on Carol Muske-Dukes's Twin Cities, and Ange Mlinko on Susan Stewart's The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making. MORE

Michael Ondaatje
with Carolyn Forché
Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, NM
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Just Received: New Collections By
- Patti Smith
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- Mark Callanan
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- Linda Besner
- Asa Boxer
- Aaron Shurin
- Jennifer R. Pournelle
- Joseph Green
- Esther Morgan
- Piotr Gwiazda
The winner of the Musical Mood Poetry Contest is announced

Anne Harding Woodworth's poem "Taps" was selected to be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by artists at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center












