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Wednesday: Swallows, Monarchs, and More Wisdom from Wystan [by Ernest Hilbert]
This September, the excellent Swallow imprint at Ohio University Press will issue the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, with a foreword by J. D. McClatchy. I would like to present a few poems…
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Hot Off The Presses!
InCreduLit.com, a scholarly service I use frequently when teaching literature, has expanded its focus to include cable television (more on that later) and a 24/7 news bureau, through which it monitors other news-invention services such…
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The Cherry Blossom Proof [by David Shapiro]
The Cherry Blossom Proof The Milky Way is shrinkingso the cherry-blossoms aregrowing larger. You write me longer letters.Therefore, God exists. — David Shapiro See The New York Quarterly, for this and other poems by…
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Couch-potato Kittens, Bad Rap Lyrics, and the Ever-cheerful Mr. Larkin [by Ernest Hilbert]
My wife and I have taken in a family of young kittens and their momma. I stepped onto the back porch of our home in Philadelphia one morning and saw a little head, with…
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My Creative Process (Thoughts Written on the Long Bus Ride Back from Córdoba to Mojácar) [by Sharon Dolin]
One of the prize-winning Patios in Córdoba This is my final week in Spain, so this week I will offer reflections on my experience here. What has my creative process been like here in Spain?…
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Poetry War, Oxbridge Battlefront
From our British correspondent:<<<Ruth Padel, first female Oxford Professor of Poetry, resigns over smear claims The first female Oxford Professor of Poetry resigned today following her involvement in an alleged smear campaign against a…
