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Nazifa Islam
- May 25, 2015
- 1 min
Michael Dennis Reviews Searching for a Pulse
Poet Michael Dennis just reviewed Searching for a Pulse as part of his poetry blog project Today's Book of Poetry, where roughly every two days he writes about a book of poetry that he likes. It's quite the kind review, and I'm really grateful that Michael took the time to both read the book and write about it. I admit that being told that my collection is "utterly charming in a Morticia Adams/Janice Joplin/Ann Sexton sort of way" pretty much made my week. You can check out t
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Nazifa Islam
- Dec 18, 2014
- 2 min
Musical Ekphrasis: "No Forecast of Rain" by The Soloists
I’m about to announce month-old news! Aren’t you excited? Aren’t your eyes wide with barely-contained glee? Isn’t this the kind of build-up you wish every single blog post led with? Okay, I’ll stop being clever now. Or “clever” is probably more accurate. Ahem. Anyways. In order to properly explain this news I need to introduce you to The Soloists. They’re a band from Novi, Michigan made up of the talented Eric VanBuhler and Pat Kochyan. The three of us went to high school tog
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Nazifa Islam
- Aug 7, 2014
- 2 min
Searching for a Pulse: An Origin Story
I'll be the first to admit this "origin story" is rather short and maybe doesn't qualify as a "story" so much as a "vignette." But for whatever reason—poet rhythm aesthetics maybe?—I think "origin story" sounds better than "origin vignette" and so I'm going to leave the dishonest title alone. Anyhow, enough meta-ness about this blog post. Searching for a Pulse just had its one year anniversary (August 5th), and in light of that I decided I'd tell you a little about where the
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