Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate is a writer, indie bookseller/events coordinator at Community Bookstore, and critic. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Rumpus, Salon, Time Out New York, The Daily Beast, O,The Oprah Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Capital New York, The Star Tribune, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
Michele Filgate is a writer, indie bookseller/events coordinator at Community Bookstore, and critic. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Rumpus, Salon, Time Out New York, The Daily Beast, O,The Oprah Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Capital New York, The Star Tribune, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
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  • poetrysociety:

    “I wanted to mess with the term novel, to suggest a vagueness, an amateur quality. Amateur which suggests homemade, authentic. I like that, of course. I also thought of all the evocations the word poet has—it’s so rich and problematic I wanted the word poet to be in the title too. ” Eileen Myles on her novel Inferno (A Poet’s Novel) read more.

    INFERNO is such a good book.

    (via millionsmillions)

    Source: poetrysociety
    • September 18, 2012 (2:24 pm)
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      found was carved out...write a poem there you merely needed to gather. There would
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      As an aspiring “poet novelist” myself, I am almost morbidly fascinated with this book and its premise and its author and...
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      INFERNO is such a good book.
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