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Two Takes on Torah – Rachel Barenblat
Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at his tent’s front door In the heat of the day. He looked up, and saw three men near him…
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Anthologies and Anecdotes – David Lehman and Bill Henderson join Julie Sheehan
(Left to right) Bill Henderson, Julie Sheehan, and David Lehman To a packed house of aspiring writers and members of the Stonybrook MFA program community in Southampton, David Lehman and Bill Henderson shared stories about…
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LeBron James Poetry Contest [by Emma Trelles]
"He does it better with grace…" : Bill Shakespeare weighs in on LeBron James At first, there was a little hometown poetry contest, sponsored by the Miami Herald and WLRN. Just a bit of wordplay to…
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Sitting in the darkness waiting for something to burst – Rachel Barenblat
In my post about Dave Bonta's poems a few days ago I mentioned Qarrtsiluni, the literary journal which Bonta co-edits (with Beth Adams of The Cassandra Pages.) The journal's name comes from an Iñupiaq…
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Pink Sky Tonight and Emily Dickinson [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, How are you? Like most bloggers or writers of anything but letters, I don't know who's reading me, but I sort of pretend I do, starting from anyone who has ever…
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Music for fall – Rachel Barenblat
As soon as autumn weather settles in, I find myself tuning my iPod in the car to Värttinä. There's something about their tight (and sometimes dissonant) harmonies and their often-complex rhythms (who else writes…
