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Hot Topic, Hot Day, Cool Show: “A Taste of the Past” [by Stacey Harwood]
I was honored to be one of two guests today on Linda Pelaccio's Heritage Radio Network program "A Taste of the Past." The show is broadcast live over the internet from a studio that…
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Calling into the Silence [by Tracy K. Smith]
To be embarrassingly honest, I was a little frightened to actually sit down with Last Seen, by Jacqueline Jones LaMon. It’s a collection about African American children who have gone missing, and I worried…
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He’s Number One!!
Congratulations! to T. P. Winch, whose new book, Falling out of Bed in a Room with No Floor, is #1 on the Small Press Distribution best-seller list. That's exactly where the book should be. …
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On Community [by Tracy K. Smith]
Today, I’m thinking about community. The people who constitute home for us. The ones who keep us from getting lost, losing track of where we are going or who we are in the process…
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Freud Quiz # 26
If Freud and Dante held a summit meeting, where would it be? (a) The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1962.(b) Greenwich Village (c) With Ulysses and Diomedes in the Eighth Circle of The Inferno(d)…
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The Church of Poetry
Sometimes I think that poetry is a kind of church. The church I’ve been looking for all my life, where nobody tries to sleuth out whether you’ve been sinning all week, and where the…
