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Metaphors of Craft, by Sandra Beasley
Once, a friend was giving me feedback on a poem that would appear in my first collection, Theories of Falling. He had concerns about the leaps of narrative that my draft was making, the…
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Springtime with Alpacas (by Laura Orem)
What did you do last Wednesday? I helped to shear 69 alpacas. Rick and I have been talking about getting a couple of alpacas for several years. Alpacas, in case you didn't know, are…
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Make It Out to “Posterity,” by Sandra Beasley
This past Sunday, I read to about 70 people at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC. I couldn't have asked for a better audience: friends, poetry lovers, old high school English teachers, former bosses, and…
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“What’s the name of this gal? Oh, yeah — Emily Dickinson… “
Bill Murray reads poetry while wearing a hard-hat:
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Monday @ KGB: Julie Sheehan & David Lehman
Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar Presents . . . Julie Sheehan is a 2008 recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and author of two poetry collections, Orient Point, which won the Barnard…
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Where Poetry Begins, by Sandra Beasley
Red, green, blue horses, I wrote, ride up and down. I paused, wondering how to complete my ode to carousels. Up and down, I scribbled a second time.…
