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E V E N T S
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  E V E N T S
  2008
MAY 15 :
Reading, with Adam Kirsch. 8:00 PM. Community Bookstore of Park Slope. 143 7th Ave., between Carroll and Garfield, in Brooklyn. (718) 783-3075.
  P U B L I C A T I O N S
2008
TBA:

Five poems, translated into German by Christophe Fricker. Akzente.

MAY:
"Sad Stories." The New York Sun.
MAY:
"Curious Specimens: An Exchange," with Cate Marvin. A review of Daniel Anderson’s Drunk in Sunlight and Alice Oswald’s Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems. Poetry, May 2008.
FEB.:
"Father Birmingham." Parnassus.
JAN.:

"Citation." Poetry.

N E W S
  2008
OCT./NOV.:

Political Poetry. Six-week seminar (Sundays). 92nd Street Y.

JAN.:
Adam Kirsch discusses poems from The Optimist in his new book of essays, The Modern Element.
  "Traces of Fugitive Gods." James Matthew Wilson reviews The Optimist and Bill Coyle's The God of This World to His Prophet in The Dark Horse (Scotland).
  2007
"Für Metrum und Blankvers!" Christophe Fricker discusses contemporary American verse in Germany's leading monthly, Merkur.
Robert Shaw discusses blank verse poems from The Optimist in his new book, Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use.
P R E S S

Reviews of The Optimist.

  "Finding the Verse in Adversity." New York Times (Apr. 2005).

Press Release. Questions and Answers with Joshua Mehigan.