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On Keats’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Bryan Borland and Megan Volpert, Editors of Sibling Rivalry Press and with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
NA: I read on the website that SRP is “one of the country’s premier independent presses devoted to LGBT poetry.” Could you talk about the evolution of the press? How and why you started…
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What’s the Scariest Poem in the English Language? [by David Lehman]
What is the scariest poem in the language? I wager that many would select Poe’s “The Raven,” and it is unquestionable that Poe has the ability, in his…
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Advice to Writers: Read Your Reviews at Your Own Risk [by David Lehman]
But I've been lucky this week. . . DL <<<David Lehman’s “Sinatra’s Century” is a much shorter but more intimate portrait [than James Kaplan's biography]. Many of the same anecdotes used by Kaplan can…
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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood-Lehman; Ghost Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
My final "Medium of the Month" post over at the Inquisitive Eater: Who better to usher in Halloween than Edgar Allan Poe, the master of horror, suspense, and the macabre. Does your lifelong fear…
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A Postmortem: On His Beloved Cubs [by Peter Ferry]
There still is joy in Wrigleyville — though the mighty Cubs have struck out. And out and out and out. In fact, they led the majors in strikeouts with a team total of 1,518. …