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A reading this Friday at the Lawrence Public Library

Duelists and Other Rapscallions: A Kansas Bathtub Writers' Collective Reading (WITH SNACKS!!)

ANNOUNCEMENT! AMIRI BARAKA!

Amiri Barak will be on campus today, and is giving a talk tonight.  I'm trying to make sure as many people know about his visit as possible.  Here are the first couple of paragraphs from the KU press release:

LAWRENCE — Amiri Baraka, a poet, playwright, novelist, music critic and political activist, will give a public lecture and poetry reading next month at the University of Kansas.

An interview with Sam Hamill

Sam Hamill was one of my first poetry teachers.  I think he has some interesting things to say in this interview about publishing and poetry in general:

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