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My Favorite Things [by A. Van Jordan]
The toughest question I get after a poetry reading is what are my favorite books. It’s tough for me because my list of favorites is a living entity that changes year by year. I…
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“The Blouse” [by Lee Upton]
The day I wore the blouseboth men who didn’t care for me the day before, both, as if reading from the same script, said:I didn’t recognize you today. In tones of approval.I thought: It…
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Hump Day Highlights
A few items worth your time: Grace Cavalieri on Moira Egan's Hot Flash Sonnets Passager Books. 69 pgs: Moira Egan’s triumph is here—a poetic victory for all, women and men—impeccable sonnets of classic frame…
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Grief, Literally: Three Books [by Sharon Preiss]
On September 12 in 2008, on a sunny Southern California day, Karen Green came home from a short errand to find her husband, who…
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Formalism on Ecstasy [by A. Van Jordan]
I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but it was just in the last two years that I actually read the Pulitzer Prize winning collection Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks. Of course, I had read…
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FTP Hamlet (by Laura Orem)
To be, or not to be – the is the question: – She tis mob I. The mind to us TV skin and aero of outrageous forty, I to take at against a sea…
