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In spring 2004 poets Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian and Aaron Kunin uncovered Jack Spicer’s dramatic version of the Nathaniel Hawthorne story, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), amid the Spicer papers donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, by the poet’s brother, Holt Spicer, and his executor, the late Robin Blaser. Its appearance in The Kenning […]

Fiona Templeton is a figure so prominent in our understanding of today’s poets theater practice that we completely failed to notice that she had already written a number of accomplished plays before our 1985 cut-off date (“well yes,” she said dryly, “I’ve been at this game since 1975”) and she must have been just about […]