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Film Still Series #130 [by Bill Hayward]
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. Follow Bill's…
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Shakespeare’s # 83
SONNET 83 I never saw that you did painting need And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed The barren tender of a poet's debt;…
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I’m Not Clowning, I’m Raving [by Jim Cummins]
I took a couple days off to check my humor levels. When one speaks of MFA World one must make sure one's humor levels are up. Most people, teachers or students, are pretty solemn…
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Riding the Elevator to the Sky (by Anne Sexton, 1975)
As the fireman said:Don't book a room over the fifth floor in any hotel in New York.They have ladders that will reach furtherbut no one will climb them.As the New York Times said:The elevator…
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“Connotations” featuring John Hoppenthaler
Connotations magazine, in its September 2009 issue, features "A Poetry Congeries," edited by John Hoppenthaler, with contributions by such poets as Carey Salerno William Heyen Richard Jackson Shara McCallum David Lehman Kathryn Stripling Byer…
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Ode to a Punctuation Mark !!?,:;”‘() . . . __–
I love Grammar Girl and have been listening to her "quick and dirty tips" podcasts — and getting her newsletter, too — for over a year. It's fun! Do you have a favorite punctuation…
