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‘What I Can See from Here” [by Tom Disch]
Tom Disch excelled at every literary genre he tried his hand at and had big infuential fans and yet — and yet he was dogged by bad luck, by a prejudice against genre fiction…
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Awards for Poetry, Plus a New Anthology (posted by Bruce Covey)
This morning I decided to launch a major new poetry award, called The Super Important Totally Awesome Major Major International Poetry Award, with its easy-to-memorize acronym SITAMMIPA. It will carry as much prestige as…
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Ruth Stone, 1915-2011: “…and all along this stream was going along”
Ruth Stone died on Saturday, November 19, at her home in Vermont. (Here's the Times obit.) The poet, 96, toiled in obscurity for most of her life, her work a secret known and cherished by…
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A Posthumous Poem by Tom Disch
A Reverie by the Shore We all respect you, Sir, for the violenceof your death. Who'd ever heard of a stingrayturning its tail into a spearand thrusting it in someone's heart?What can one say…
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Happy Thanksgiving! (Posted by Bruce Covey)
Well, it is Thanksgiving after all, so even though it’s a bit over-determined and even though I don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving for obvious reasons, I’m going to post some heartfelt poetry thanks by category. …
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Gratitude for the Simple Gifts by Laura Orem
Happy Thanksgiving! I have many things to be thankful for this year. First, that I am alive and cancer-free. Second, for my incredible family and friends who not only have buoyed me on this…
