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Folger celebrates Poet Lore’s 120th   Posted by Caitlin on January 8, 2010
From Executive Editor Jody Bolz to all locals!
Happy icy, windy 2010!  Hope you’ll bundle up and join us at the Folger Shakespeare Library at 7:30 pm on Monday, January 11th, for a celebratory reading in honor of Poet Lore’s 120th anniversary and Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s 10th.

Kim Addonizio, whom Poet Lore first published 25 years ago, will read with Washington poet Kyle Dargan. After the reading, Jon West-Bey, director of the American Poetry Museum, will moderate a conversation with those of us who edit the journals being honored. Poet Lore’s special 120th anniversary issue will be on sale at the reception afterwards, along with a new anthology by Beltway (Cash and check requested for payment).

Tickets available at www.folger.edu or (probably) at the door. Call (202) 544-7077 for more information.
Hope to see you there!

A Sweet Note   Posted by Caitlin

from our own Kerrin McCadden:

Dear Caitlin,

I just want to say what an astonishing read this issue of Poet Lore is. The arc of the poems is stunning.

I love to see if I know anyone else in whatever journal I’m in, and who my neighbor is on the facing page, and what they wrote. I was knocked down to see my roommate from Bread Loaf, and now longtime friend, Ilyse Kusnetz on the facing page! Now we are roommates in a book. I just wanted to let you know how weird and wonderful that was for both of us.

I see Poet Lore is having a reading at AWP. I will look forward to saying hello.

Again, great issue. So pleased to be a part of it.

Cheers, Kerrin

It’s notes like these that remind me why I love what I do!

Read Kerrin’s and Ilyse’s new works in our 120th Anniversary issue.

Current Issue

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Volume 104, Number 3/4
Includes work from John Balaban, Philip Dacey, Colette Inez, Gary Fincke, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, and Bruce Weigl.


   




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