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Romania Redux [by Sharon Mesmer]
Here are a few of the writers I met at Neptun, and tiny excerpts from their translated works … Elena Vladareanu, from Romania: …from "Virtual Space": I'm not afraid of death I couldn't care…
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Nonsense, Shenanigans and Damn Fine Poetry: West Chester, 2009
(Just kidding with that first post… let me try again.) Greetings, Lieblings. Just over a week ago I attended (for the third year in a row) the West Chester University Poetry Conference. For those…
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Give Me Cover
Aren't old book cover illustrations fantastic? We have a rotating wire paperback book rack in our living room and it's always a hit among visitors because they can see those great old covers. Faber and Faber…
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“A Footnote for David Lehman” [by David Shapiro]
A Footnote for David Lehman a footnote is a link and a quotation is a photo and a poem can be easily deleted evenings Tell me, tell me, delete me instantly, isn't a reference…
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“Double Indemnity” The Second Time Around
Fred MacMurray ("Neff") and Barbara Stanwyck ("Mrs Dietrichson") in Billy Wilder's 1944 movie I saw it again the other night on TCM with genial host Robert Osborne in impeccably tailored suit. The dialogue as…
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Donald Justice; or Coming of Age in America [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, It is One pm. I’m moved by Jim Cummins’s recent post, where he cites Charles Wright on Donald Justice. DJ was reviewing the young CW’s poetry and a fly flew around the…
