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10.22.2009 1:12 pm

A taste for poetry? Two events tonight combine food, verse

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Local poets and poetry lovers will have at least two events to choose from tonight (Thursday).

 Richard Newman, who has edited River Styx for 15 years, reads from his collection, “Domestic Fugues,” at Dressel’s Pub Above. Beginning at 7:30, the event will feature stew…

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01.21.2009 5:55 pm

St. Louis writers react to inaugural poem

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Criticism of Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day” was posted in many sites online. Blunt criticism was especially popular in Britain at the Guardian;  David Ulin at the LA Times was less harsh, but still not impressed. 

But, as River Styx editor…

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