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Kris Bigalk is the author of Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, a poetry collection forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books. Her poetry has appeared in The WaterStone Review, the cream city review, The New York Quarterly, Silk Road, and other journals. She lives near Minneapolis, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing at Normandale Community College.


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Consumer Culture: Poetry Reading

What do you think of when you think about Consumer Culture? A culture that promotes consumption, a mentality that more is better. An advertising industry that sells the idea that happiness depends on possession, that what you are and what you have is never enough. The economic machinery th... read more »
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Repeat the Flesh in Numbers
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Cell Traffic by Heid E. Erdrich
Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems
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Cell Traffic is a collection of Erdrich's new and selected poems, focusing on themes relating to the commodification of Native Americans, the human body, down to our very cells and DNA. Shying away from nothing, these poems engage with the emotions a...more
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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Wild is one of the best, if not the best, memoir I have ever read -- and I've read a lot of memoirs, most of them marginal. It does what a memoir should do -- immerses the reader in the experiences of the writer as she travels the Pacific Crest Trail...more
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Gravedigger's Birthday by B.J. Ward
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This book of poetry combines elegant, precise poetry with gritty content -- engaging the heart and head equally, as all good poetry should.
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Every Dress a Decision by Elizabeth Austen
Every Dress a Decision
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This was my first encounter with Elizabeth Austen's work, and I'm very impressed. Austen's control of language, rhythm, and pacing is unmatched by many contemporary poets, with each word and phrase carefully crafted and turned exactly right. A set of...more
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What the Raven Said by Robert  Alexander
What the Raven Said
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This contemplative book of prose poems is a perfect companion for a weekend alone on a northern lake. A chronicle of both interior and exterior landscapes, and how they reflect each other, What the Raven Said combines the rich description of nature r...more
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Jack Norton Hey Kris
Hope all's well. Sitting here reading some serious poetry. Forget about Bukowski and Kerouac. I've got the Wiggles new Activity Book.
Drop your favorite student of all time a line sometime.
Later,
J-No.


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