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Three Poets from Press 53: Shivani Mehta, Kathleen McGookey, and Leona Sevick (by Nin Andrews)
Every now and then I wake up in serious need of a poetry fix. I feel a kind of angst, as if I don’t quite fit in my skin. Maybe I’ve had bad…
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I Will Wear My Wounds in Chapters: Six Chapbooks
To Those Who Were Our First GodsNickole BrownRattle, 2018 Nickole Brown’s To Those Who Were Our First Gods explores the profound links between human beings and our animal kin. In language both colloquial and…
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An Erotic Soundtrack for The Best American Erotic Poetry: The Movie [by Catherine Bowman]
A highly subjective list after looking over my CDs and albums. 1. All six tracks on the self-titled Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane album 2. “The Very Thought of You” as sung by…
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On Helen Forrest’s birthday, “I remember you”
I always think of FDR's death on April 12 but here's something nice to think about: Helen Forrest (nee Fogel) was born today. Here she sings a Johnny Mercer lyric: and wait till you…
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Playing the Lines [by Terese Svoboda]
One of the first tasks I’ve given neophyte writers is to free associate for ten minutes and then lineate the last ten lines of their writing so it “looks” like poetry. I’m trusting that…
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How Can You Tell What It Is? A conversation with Victoria Redel [by Terese Svoboda]
Having published books of both fiction and poetry, Victoria Redel (above) and I are often asked how we differentiate between genres at the creative stage. Terese Svoboda: The beast presents itself, an image…
