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Patricia Carlin presents a poem by Elaine Equi
For the first week of this new decade, I’ve chosen “A Woman of the Wrong Altitude” by Elaine Equi (Barrow Street, Summer 2007). Among many other pleasures the poem offers, it’s an antidote to…
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Jason Schneiderman, Guest Blogger January 3 – 9
This week we welcome Jason Schneiderman as our guest blogger. Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books, and Striking Surface, winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder Prize…
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Conversations Overheard in a Midwest Restaurant
Went out to eat tonight and heard three distinct conversations that distracted me from my book, so quickly adjusted and made some frantic notes; these are mostly verbatim. The speakers in 1 and 3…
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Here on the Island of Misfit Toys [by Jason Schneiderman]
I was at a reading a few months ago, where a friend was reading from his new memoir. I’ve known him for a number of years as a poet. He’s been subject to a…
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Horace’s “Epode I” [trans. from the Latin by Ron Horning]
Epode I Darting in a fast light galley among tall ships that bristle with turrets, dear friend,you’ll take on all the dangers waiting for Caesar and make them your own, Maecenas.But what of us…
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Blame the Poets . . .
"Another threat to good English came from the poets, who, in order to get their lines to scan, had squeezed and mangled good English words until they were barely recognizable." — Jack Lynch, The…
