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Kenji Liu, Guest Blogger May 1-7
This week we welcome Kenji Liu as our guest blogger. Kenji is a 1.5-generation immigrant from New Jersey. His poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes (Finishing Line Press, 2009) was nominated for a…
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The Tropical Roundup: Highlights from O, Miami [by Emma Trelles]
1. In February, I met with P. Scott Cunningham and Pete Borrebach for lunch at a noodle house. I couldn't find the place at first because it was lodged in the lobby of a motel…
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“And did those feet in ancient time” by William Blake
And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England's mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England's pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded…
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My Papa’s….Abuse? Part II (by Leslie McGrath)
Yesterday I began a long post about how my Introduction to Poetry students read Roethke’s poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” very differently than I, finding within its waltzing trimeter a relationship between an abusive alcoholic…
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You win if. . .
You win if you can name the bandleader with the clarinet and the singer and what is it that you win? How about this: Have you ever tried a Ramos Gin Fizz with…
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Grandpa says Trump is racist! (by Mitch Sisskind)
Bob Schieffer, who covered the Confederate surrender at Appomatox, says that Trump's demand for Obama to release his school transcripts is a racist insult! …
