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  • Movie Moments – Dead Man (1996)

    August 31, 2008

    Although lines from William Blake’s "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and "Auguries of Innocence" are quoted throughout this Jim Jarmusch film, I’ve always believed it to be based on Emily Dickinson’s #754 (My Life…

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  • E. Ethelbert Miller – Guest Blogger August 31-Sept 6

    August 31, 2008

    This week, we welcome E. Ethelbert Miller as our guest blogger.  Miller is the author of, most recently How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love (Curbstone). You can read more about…

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  • Bruce Covey presents Peter Davis

    August 31, 2008

    In an environment in which so many seem to steer their sculls between appointed lines, Peter Davis’s poems motorboat back and forth across poetry currents – satirically, yes, but also intelligently, self aware, and…

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  • Letter to Harwood and Lehman from Livingston, II

    August 31, 2008

    (c) bill hayward 2008 Dear Stacey and David:  This is from [Richard] Hugo’s The Real West Marginal Way, "Self-Interview": <<<Q: Do you think of the wind as God? A: I suppose I do, except…

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  • E. Ethelbert Miller and Taters

    August 31, 2008

    George Scott , the first baseman who once played for the Boston Red Sox called his homeruns "taters. I keep thinking that’s what I should call the poems by James Tate. I heard Tate…

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  • Amy Gerstler’s Sonnet for Judith Moore

    August 30, 2008

    Sonnetfor Judith Moore The small stone towers pictured on the other side of this postcardare called Lanterns of the Dead. Lights are displayed at night in those tiny porthole-like openings at the top to…

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