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  • Whence I Write [by Lynn Domina]

    September 12, 2016

    A few days ago, my friend Janet McAdams poked fun at me for referring to myself as a “Yooper.” I am accustomed to Janet’s teasing—we’ve been friends for over thirty years, and much of…

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  • Voltaire: “I disagree [with you] but will fight to the death to defend your right to say it. . .” [by David Lehman]

    September 12, 2016

    In Russia, according to the Independent, a vodka-soaked advocate of poetry killed a prose partisan in a brawl. Last month, apparently, a similar dispute, with the same fatal outcome, occurred over the theories of Immanuel…

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  • Lynn Domina, Guest Author September 12-16

    September 11, 2016

    This week we welcome Lynn Domina as our guest author. Lynn is the author of two collections of poetry, Corporal Works and Framed in Silence, (Four Way Books) and the editor of a collection of…

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  • Yoga on the beach: my prayers are ever blasphemies [by Tracy Danison]

    September 9, 2016

    Ne te fie aux apparences, pardner: the warming sun is a million miles off, the charming doohickeys jostling the surf are man traps from the last  really big war and that man on sat…

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  • Part IV: Nibblers and Snow Cones [by Dean Smith]

    September 7, 2016

    Oriole starter Wade Miley took the loss Sunday against the Yankees. Since joining the O’s a few weeks ago, his name has been nibbling at the edges of my consciousness. I’d seen him pitch in…

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  • Save the Date: “Best American Poetry 2016” Launch Reading: Sept 22 at the New School in NYC

    September 7, 2016

    Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 For the fifteenth consecutive year, the New School  Writing Program sponsors the launch…

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