Archive for July, 2008

Orr on Ryan

David Orr calls new U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan a terrific poet, and sees echoes in her work of Marianne Moore & Stevie Smith.

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Jessa Crispin’s Irish brown soda bread

Has anyone done more in the past six years to foster reading than Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin? What started as a blog and monthly magazine written and edited on the clock at Planned Parenthood has grown into a full-time gig that leaves Crispin plenty of time to read, to write about reading, and to endure dreadful publishing events filled with . . .

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