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  • “My Flu” [by Reetika Vazirani]

    December 21, 2017

    Subj:   My FluDate:   96_12_21 15:22:57 ESTFrom:  [email protected] (Reetika Gina Vazirani)To:  [email protected] Hello.I caught the fluthere is nothing I can dobut entertain myself as u-sual, it's fun reading your books which out of the blueput…

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  • Joyeuses Fêtes! Eight “street portraits” from Sarah Meunier: eight reasons to love suburban Paris

    December 20, 2017

      all that About two million people live in the 40 square miles of Paris intramuros, each enjoying an average annual share of national income of 75K €. Five million people, each getting along…

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  • The Poet and the Poem, the Artist and her Art, The Criminal and the Crime, How Similar Are They?

    December 19, 2017

      I know–it's a funny question, but it first occurred to me when I was getting my MFA at Vermont College, and my beautiful friend, Alicia, with her long, wavy golden hair (I mean,…

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  • Next Line, Please: Double Your Pleasure

    December 19, 2017

    This week on Next Line, Please, the prompt is to play with double alliteration, an experiment introduced to us by Aaron Fogel in a poem called “BW,” which was published in 1988.  Building on this idea,…

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  • Proof that the Brain Is a Bucking Horse: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Tim Seibles’s One Turn Around the Sun

    December 18, 2017

    One Turn Around the SunTim SeiblesEtruscan Press, 2017 Tim Seibles’s newest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, examines the chimaeras and constellations of selfhood that make up a life. Seibles ranges from six months…

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  • Creativity Rules: The CDC Poetry Project [Amy Lemmon]

    December 18, 2017

    It's the end of the semester at FIT. Immersed in final grades and end-of-semester tasks as Chairperson of English and Communication Studies, I was trying to bask a bit in the launch of an…

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