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Mark Yakich

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Raising Holy Sparks

Tom Cooper

Robin Roberts

Michael Carr

Avram Mlotek

Erica Brown

Clint Smith

Erik Larson

Walter Isaacson

Laura Lippman

Lee Ledbetter

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Clint Bruce

Lauren Tuchman

Ryan Murphy

Sunni Patterson

OwlTail

Stacey Balkun

The Reading Life: Mark Yakich, Stacey Balkun

I had always wanted to pray - to open my heart and express my thoughts and feelings out to the world - to God - in a completely honest and vulnerable way but the pressure was too great... that is, at least, until I read the writing of Professor Mark Yakich.

I had always wanted to pray - to open my heart and express my thoughts and feelings out to the world - to God - in a completely honest and vulnerable way but the pressure was too great... that is, at least, until I read the writing of Professor Mark Yakich.

Episode 35: Poetry: The Anti-Obituary w/Mark Yakich

Lily Brown

April 12 2008 05:49 PM PSTThe So and So Series Celebrates its 2nd BirthdayHeld at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on The second series of Manila Broadsides has begun! This time around, they are going to be perforated triptychs. Sweet. This month features the poets Lily Brown, Betsy Wheeler, and Mark Yakich, and the artist Mike Dacey.  All rights reserved.For more information on the Manila Broadsides, a project that combines visual art and poetry, visit: http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com/About the Poets:Lily Brown was born and raised in Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco. She is the author of the chapbook The Renaissance Sheet, published by Octopus Books in 2007, and her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press in 2008. Poems have appeared or will appear in Typo, Octopus, Handsome, Coconut, Fence, Pleiades and 26.Originally from the Upper Mississippi River Valley, Betsy Wheeler studied poetry and the art of the book at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse where she was a Maple House Fellow for Sutton Hoo Press. She received her MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University in 2005, then lived, worked, and wrote as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry from 2005-2007. Her poems have recently appeared in The Journal, Bat City Review, MiPoesias, Pebble Lake Review, Forklift Ohio, Ping Pong, and Absent. Her chapbook, Start Here, is available from Small Anchor Press. Co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Books, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she works for Wondertime magazine.Mark Yakich's new poetry collection is The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). He lives in New Orleans. His website is markyakich.com.

April 12 2008 05:49 PM PST The So and So Series Celebrates its 2nd Birthday Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on The second series of Manila Broadsides has begun! This time around, they are going to be perforated triptychs. Sweet. This month features the poets Lily Brown, Betsy Wheeler, and Mark Yakich, and the artist Mike Dacey. All rights reserved. For more information on the Manila Broadsides, a project that combines visual art and poetry, visit: <a href="http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com/</a> About the Poets: Lily Brown was born and raised in Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco. She is the author of the chapbook The Renaissance Sheet, published by Octopus Books in 2007, and her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press in 2008. Poems have appeared or will appear in Typo, Octopus, Handsome, Coconut, Fence, Pleiades and 26. Originally from the Upper Mississippi River Valley, Betsy Wheeler studied poetry and the art of the book at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse where she was a Maple House Fellow for Sutton Hoo Press. She received her MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University in 2005, then lived, worked, and wrote as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry from 2005-2007. Her poems have recently appeared in The Journal, Bat City Review, MiPoesias, Pebble Lake Review, Forklift Ohio, Ping Pong, and Absent. Her chapbook, Start Here, is available from Small Anchor Press. Co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Books, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she works for Wondertime magazine. Mark Yakich's new poetry collection is The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). He lives in New Orleans. His website is <a href="http://markyakich.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">markyakich.com</a>.

We're TWO! with readings by Lily Brown, Betsy Wheeler, and Mark Yakich -- April 2008 So and So