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POETS’ GUIDE TO AMERICA Now Available for Pre-Order!

Posted on 14 September 2012 by poetsguide

Fantastic news! After months of waiting, writing, editing, and revising by John F. Buckley, Martin Ott and editor Joe Pan Millar, Poets’ Guide to America is now available to pre-order on Amazon.com! We’d love it if you could help us … Continue reading →

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We’re in an Awesome New Anthology!

Posted on 22 October 2011 by poetsguide

A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens has just been published on Green Poet Press. It contains our poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking by a Black Bird,” which will also appear in Poets Guide to … Continue reading →

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We Have Found a Home!

Posted on 3 October 2011 by poetsguide

We are thrilled! We’ve found a publisher! Brooklyn Arts Press has offered to publish Poets’ Guide to America, a joint endeavor by John F. Buckley and Martin Ott. As you probably know by now, the poems discuss the cities, states, … Continue reading →

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Have We Found a Home?

Posted on 3 October 2011 by poetsguide

As of early this morning, October 3, 2011, a publisher has offered to publish Poets’ Guide to America in the summer of 2012. We still need to look over and discuss the contractual terms between ourselves, but this is tentatively … Continue reading →

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How Did We Miss This?

Posted on 21 August 2011 by poetsguide

We were busy, that’s how. But now our various brands of existential craziness have ebbed for the moment, enabling us to linger wistfully on a lost opportunity. Which lost opportunity? Taking advantage of August 18, Bad Poetry Day, on which … Continue reading →

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POETRY App Now Available for iPhone, Android, and iPad.

Posted on 31 July 2011 by poetsguide

It’s free! (Mobile device not included) The publisher of Poetry magazine, The Poetry Foundation, has put together and put out the POETRY app for Android and iPad. (It was available for iPhone in May 2010.) It’s updated regularly with new … Continue reading →

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Broetry is Among Us

Posted on 17 July 2011 by poetsguide

Fighting against the perception that poetry is intended only for tweedy twits with tenure and girly men wielding daffodils, Bryan McGackin has written a book Broetry, writing on such topics as video games, frat parties, and bar fights, reclaiming the … Continue reading →

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Korean Tacos, Heirloom Tomatoes, Paintings, and Poetry

Posted on 17 July 2011 by poetsguide

The next time you’re at a Bay-Area farmer’s market amidst the food trucks and produce stalls, or (until the end of July) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, look for Zach Houston, a poet with a … Continue reading →

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The Largest Ongoing Spoken-Word Event in the World

Posted on 17 July 2011 by poetsguide

The Brave New Voices Festival, created in 1998 by Youth Speaks, Inc., will take place in the Bay Area this year from July 20 to 23, featuring teen poetry-slam champions from all over the world. Since this festival, particularly the … Continue reading →

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Bombing Is Cool…

Posted on 12 July 2011 by poetsguide

…when it’s “poetry bombing.” For the O, Miami poetry festival back in April, Argentinean-American artist Agustina Woodgate sewed snippets of poems by Sylvia Plath and Li Po inside thrift-store clothes. You buy that used cardigan, look for washing instructions, and … Continue reading →

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