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La Revedere, Romania [by Sharon Mesmer]
It's my last day here, and I'm totally exhausted. The Romanian Writers' Union has run us absolutely ragged — no time to even report on what's happened! I guess I'll have to do that…
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Stehen Yenser on James Merrill’s “Grass”
GRASS The river irisesDraw themselves in. Enough to have seenTheir day. The arras Also of evening drawn,We light up betweenEarth and VenusOn the courthouse lawn, Kept by this cheerful Inch of greenAnd ten more…
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“He Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly …”
In responding to the posting of a Donald Justice poem last week, I mentioned the story Charles Wright tells of a conference with DJ when Wright was a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. …
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“I’ll Walk Alone” (by Laura Orem)
It's funny how things work to create ideas for posting. I've been thinking about Stacey's moving post about her father on the anniversary of D-Day, and also about DL's upcoming book on American popular…
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Same Day Cleaners: a business and a family
How can I justify putting this video on the BAP site? Why, I know! It's like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" — I just can't shut up about it. And there's more where…
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“Gypsy Ballad” [by Sharon Dolin]
Mojácar Gypsy Ballad after Lorca Blue how you’ll ride me blue.Blue hair. Blue mouth.Hips on the bed,crickets on the screen.With chest of night,he sleeps on his arm,blue belly, flanks dark blue,and his eyes, mud-gold.Blue…
