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UA Poetry Center
Conspiracy Simile: A Poetry Craft Talk
In this Poetry Craft Talk titled "Conspiracy Simile: The Assassination of JFK/The Assassination of Poetry, or How I Discovered I Was Writing Cover-Story Poetics," Thomas Sayers Ellis explores the role of truth and evidence in poetry, and critically examines his own 1992 poem "Zapruder."
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"A Poet's Guide to the Assassination of JFK {the Assassination of Poetry}"
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Performed with musical accompaniment. Differs from published version.
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Citation
Ellis, Thomas Sayers. "A Poet's Guide to the Assassination of JFK ." The Baffler 24 (2013): 169-171. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.
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On documentary poetics, the Zapruder film, and Ellis's 1992 poem "Zapruder"
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Ellis, Thomas Sayers. "Zapruder." Ploughshares 18.4 (1992): 67. Print.