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Anna Moschovakis
Anna Moschovakis is the author of You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poetry Series. Currently, Moschovakis is a freelance editor, an active member of the nonprofit publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a visiting professor in the writing program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. 'What It Means to Be Avant-Garde', excerpted here, is one of three poems in her forthcoming poetry collection, They and We Will Get into Trouble for This, which will be published later this month by Coffee House Press in the United States.

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[from] What It Means to Be Avant-Garde

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February 2016

Anna Moschovakis

poetry

February 2016

This is an excerpt from the middle of a longer poem. The full poem is in Moschovakis’s forthcoming book, They and We Will Get...

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The New Writing

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July 2013

The way I see it, the avant-garde emerged at a point when the professionalisation of artists had consumed itself...

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March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

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March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

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July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

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July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

 

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