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  • Without Restaurants [by Adrienne Su]

    August 25, 2020

    Poet Faith Shearin reports from sheltering-in-place in Massachusetts: “We are cooking a ton because even the carry out in Amherst and Northampton has shut down. I miss restaurants more than I can say. I…

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  • The Pauses between Poems [by Adrienne Su]

    August 24, 2020

    Most of the poets I know have been temporarily silenced, at least in verse, by the Covid-19 crisis. Recent months recall the aftermaths of 9/11 and the 2016 presidential election: impossible to write creatively…

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  • Adrienne Su, Guest Author August 24-28

    August 24, 2020

    photo © Guy Freeman This week we welcome back Adrienne Su as our guest author. Adrienne is Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania. Her fifth collection of poems, Peach…

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  • The French and the British Vie for the Yankee Dollar

    August 24, 2020

    Who said it: <<<The French try to deal with us by making us feel foolish, to prove to us that we didn’t have the brain power to follow them; the British dealt with us…

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  • Sarah Clancy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    August 23, 2020

                                    photo by Turlach O'Broin _______________________________________________________________________ Ringing in Sick to Go Mermaid Hunting   Once when I wasn’t I…

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  • “Shabbat Candles” [by Rosanna Warren]

    August 21, 2020

    They finger the darkness long after the plates are cleared and because they’re lonely, multiply themselves in the black window, bowing to company, and exchange signals with the rising moon. We’re asleep. God will…

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