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Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman

American Linden (Tupelo) Your Time Has Come (Verse) Poets Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss the formation of a new literary press, Wave, and then branch out into an exploration of the improbable economics of life as a poet....

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By Michael Silverblatt • May 26, 2005 • 30m Listen

American Linden

(Tupelo) and

Your Time Has Come

(Verse)

Poets Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss the formation of a new literary press, Wave, and then branch out into an exploration of the improbable economics of life as a poet. One of them has traveled across America improvising poems with a fellow poet. The other is a master of Russian surrealism. How did such vagrant spirits create and maintain a business?

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