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Saudade- Sally Ashton
Out the open French doors of my pensione on a narrow street in Sevilla, the warm silence is periodically broken by church bells, calling doves, the clatter of hooves on cobble and the rumble…
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Jerry Williams, Guest Blogger July 3-9
This week we welcome Jerry Williams as our guest blogger. Jerry is an associate professor at Marymount Manhattan College. His first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press…
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Kierkegaard on Systems
Here is Kierkegaard's estimate of the ideologues and academics who construct systems, concoct all-embracing theories, advocate isms: << In relation to their systems most systematizers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and…
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BAP Contributor’s Note of the Year: Happy Independence Day Roald Hoffmann.
(from the Best American Poetry 1994, ed A. R. Ammons): Roald Hoffmann was born in Zloczow, Poland in 1937. After escaping form a Nazi labor camp in January 1943, he and his mother hid…
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Tracks without Fossils, Pinchot Sycamores, Defamiliarization and Gabonese Hip Hop by Ravi Shankar
My last blog post for BAP so thanks to all of you for following along as my literary adventures took me from Jackson Hole, Wyoming back to Connecticut, where the state flower is the Mountain…
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Almost leaving- Sally Ashton
The program ends. Yesterday, I forgot my notebook and pen for the first time. I teared-up reading a Pessoa poem aloud to the last workshop(see below). The heat and humidity broke into a sweet…
