Ali reads at 7 pm tonight, Monday, May 18, with Lorna Dee Cervantes and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon at the 11th Street Bar (510 East 11th Street, NYC).

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My review of Laura Miller's The Magician's Book appears in the May 25, 2009 edition of The Nation.

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In other news, my poem "From the C to the 4 or 5" is in the new American Letters and Commentary, and my poem "How to Get Started, How to Keep Going, How to Stop" appears in the new Conduit [Note: Link will shrink your browser window].