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  • Lear is an anagram for real [by DL]

    August 27, 2011

    Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?…

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  • Took this picture, wrote this poem, thought of you, waiting for a storm [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    August 27, 2011

                      The Spider   Spider, spider, spinning tight against the darkness of the night, what inspired geometry is wonder at your web from me?   On…

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  • Towards an Iranian-American Reading List–Final Post by Guest Blogger Roger Sedarat

    August 27, 2011

    My thanks to David Lehman and Stacey Harwood for inviting me to guest blog for the week. My week of blogging concludes with a brief recommended bibliography of Iranian-American writing. Of course there is much…

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  • Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!

    August 26, 2011

     Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white…

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  • Sunday, September 4: BAP 2011 Showcase at the AJC Decatur Book Festival with David Lehman, Kevin Young, and Natasha Trethewey

    August 26, 2011

    Sunday, September 4, 2011, 3:45 – 4:30 PM at the Decatur Presbyterian Sanctuary Stage. Details here. 

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  • Identifying Beyond the MFA: the Value of Writing Communities

    August 26, 2011

    To blog is to post to a community, so I thought for this penultimate entry as guest blogger I’d start there, with the value of sharing our work and thoughts about writing with others.…

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