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Bloof Books Tour: Let us not speak of Nashville. Georgia’s on our mind. (Shanna Compton)
Columbus, Muncie, Nashville, Atlanta, Tallahassee…so it's Day Six of the book tour. (Each morning I have to count.) Each morning we wake up in a hotel, remember where we are (FL), calculate the number…
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Saturday Aphorism
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. – – George Balanchine
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This Just in: From “Marie Claire”
The Best (Modern) Poems for Any Stage of a Love Affair by Maura Kelly: "Almost nothing turns me on more than a man sharing his favorite poems with me. I'd take a man who…
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Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day
I subscribe to Bryan Garner's daily "Usage Tips." This came in today's e-mail: poetize; poeticize. Although Eric Partridge claimed that "'poetize' is gradually displacing 'poeticize'" (Usage & Abusage at 235[Garner's Modern American Usage, Oxford…
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I Love Lawrence Schimel: In Praise of A Midsummer Night’s Press—Jason Schneiderman
In yesterday’s blog, I was talking about Poetry Citizenship—an idea I should probably do more to articulate—and one of the things that kept lurking at the edges of both the post and the conversation…
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