Tag Archives: John Ashbery

A Short History of Poetry in Woodstock, 1873-2008

Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin

(Published in the Woodstock Times, April 17, 2008) By Michael Perkins Part II While much of the general population may prefer undergoing root canal work to attending a poetry reading, fortunately for local poets there are people who freely chose … Continue reading →

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Go Rimbaud!

Posted on April 18, 2011 by admin

I missed Rimbaud as a teen. Instead, I was fascinated by Norman Mailer, that pugnacious celebrity who’d written the Great World War II Novel fresh out of Harvard and then gone on to help invent New Journalism staring himself as … Continue reading →

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A Short History of Poetry in Woodstock, 1873-2008

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