May 2012
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“You can’t get out of this one, Henry, you can’t get it out of me, and with this...”
– Richard Siken 
May 30th
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This is just a post to say thank you to passingboats for the submission (it’s in the queue) and to remind everyone to submit things! Submit quotes, favorite poems, art, pictures, whatever you have and whatever you can find, I’d love to see it!
May 30th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 12th
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May 11th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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kathleenjoy: James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully? Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking anything, and I suppose the tool for mitigating emotion is undercutting, but I’ll try to answer the question...
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