The editors of the Best American Poetry Blog have generously posted "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the first of two ABBA poems they'll be putting up, written collaboratively by Denise Duhamel and myself.
While you're there, check out the postings by this week's fabulous guest blogger, Moira Egan! Bravissima!
About Me
- Amy Lemmon
Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Barrow Street, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the poetry chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. She is Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens.
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- The Best American Poetry Blog
- "ex post facto," "flirting with disaster," and "weekly world news model" (more ABBA poems)
- "rolling rock" and other poems on No Tell Motel (scroll down to my name for links)
- "campus emergency" and "mamma mia" (2 poems from the ABBA series, written collaboratively with denise duhamel) on lafovea.org
- "disclaimer" on dan waber's ars poetica online
- "famous poets and other oxymorons" review/essay in New Letters
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3 comments:
Wonderful poem, Amy. Fine work.
Thanks, Sam! Denise and I have had so much fun writing them. Don't be surprised if some come your way for the collaborative issue of BFR!
Great poem...absolutely hilarious!
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