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  • Bits and Bobs

    January 4, 2011

    A belated Happy New Year!  We're still wrapping up 2010 and want to call your attention to a few posts from the last weeks of last year: Tynan Davis's posts were a revelation and…

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  • On Hold by David Yezzi – Contest runner up*

    January 4, 2011

    On Hold “Our agents are now assisting other callers. your call is important: Please stay on the line.” Assisting other callers? But you were mine only. “Please stay on the line.” I’m hanging up…

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  • “Upon Reading Berryman’s Sonnets” [by Amanda J. Bradley]

    January 3, 2011

    What so sexy in a sonnet lurks? Is it between the lines as legs or sheets hide wonders lovers clamber to repeat, or is it the tradition that it works? Does language force the…

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  • The Stud Duck is here!

    January 3, 2011

                  Fifteen years in the making, and issue number seven of The Stud Duck is now available for your perusal! What’s more, some of your favorite authors from…

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  • First day, last day (by Tynan Davis)

    January 1, 2011

    It's completely cliché, but the sky is bigger in Texas.  It just is.  Today's was cloudless and a crisp cornflower blue.  The pecan trees are bare, the fruits of which have been gathered from…

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  • Ten for Ten #5: Books I loved in 2010 by Adam Fitzgerald

    January 1, 2011

    THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS John Beer Canarium Press Yes, John Beer’s first book of poetry is so intelligent, so elegant — brazenly, assuredly — absorbing our favorite Dead White Male in title…

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