Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Hoax of Spectra
Gabri Gug: The Spectric School is a new school of poets. Bitter used his alter ego to pen cervic couplets about his fellow writers. He was mocking poetry but also tricking his magazine editor in the very notion of po-biz. It's hard to these days read the poems without anything but laughter, much less their backstory narratives.
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