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Walking Woodstock
Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2009, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY
Tag Archives: Djelloul Marbrook
The Chronogram Poets: Molly McGlennen
(“McGlennen’s title belies the grandeur and tragedy of these diverse and deft lyrics about Native Americans. The author, who is part Anishinaabe, is, like her subjects, rooted in their majestic respect for the ordinary… These poems are elegiac and heart-rending,” … Continue reading
The Chronogram Poets: George Quasha
(“English owes its magisterial authority to poets like George Quasha. He finds its frontiers and surveys them. But he is concerned with more than the aeronautics of words—he choreographs their dance with his ideas,” writes Djelloul Marbrook in his Chronogram … Continue reading
The Chronogram Poets: Matthew J. Spireng
(In the November Chronogram poetry roundup, Djelloul Marbrook writes of Matthew J. Spireng’s What Focus Is: “Spireng is a poet of place, space, and creatureliness–the book begins with a drowning horse and ends with a pigeon attending a poetry festival. … Continue reading
Have you met Artemisia Cavelli? by Djelloul Marbrook
(Djelloul Marbrook and I share a getaway spot: the Starbucks in the Kingston mall strip. I go for a break from my writing to sip a frothy latte and read the paper. He sets up his laptop and gets to … Continue reading
American Duende
Half a dozen years ago, I commuted from Woodstock down to Soho once a week for a workshop at the old Poet’s House that had caught my eye, “American Duende.” I wasn’t disappointed. Our course packet from the instructor, which … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, Angel, Djelloul Marbrook, Duende, Far from Algiers, Federico Garcia Lorca, James Laughlin Prize, Joanna Solfrian, Kent State University Press, Muse, Naomi Shihab Nye, poem, Poet's House, snake poem, Soho, The Snake, Tracy K. Smith, Visible Heavens, Woodstock
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Not a Pretty Picture: Writing in Museums
When Djelloul Marbrook told me that he did some of his best writing in museums, I pictured him on a padded bench in the Met, one of his favorite places, engrossed with his notebook or his laptop, as I’ve sometimes … Continue reading
Saul Bennett Memorial Poetry Books at the Woodstock Library
My late friend and poetry ally, Saul Bennett, was a library hound. I still remember walking back to the poetry section then in the Siberian corner of the building on a slow afternoon to find Saul already there, doing what … Continue reading →