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  • A Virtual AWP [by Nin Andrews]

    March 12, 2020

    AWP has come and gone, and as you know, many poets and writers and books sellers and editors missed it, believing it best that they not travel or socialize or present their books or…

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  • Glamour Defined: Rita Hayworth as “Gilda” (1946)

    March 11, 2020

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  • Met Percent: Week Seventeen [by Alec Bernstein]

    March 9, 2020

    Ornament , Automata & Crime Left: Two Spherical Clocks, George Seydell, Germany, 17th c. Right: Caricature of Engravers "in the Greek Style", Jean Charles Delafosse, French.Bottom: Ostrich Egg Ewer, Hans Claus I, German, 1630. Sawtooth…

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  • On the Passing of Ralph Angel (1951-2020) [by Richard Jackson]

    March 9, 2020

    The poet Ralph Angel, acclaimed for his spare, haunting lyrics, died recently in Los Angeles with his wife, Mary, present. His books varied in their approach, but the aim was constant: a search for…

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  • Terence Winch with “simple lyrics heartfelt and laconic”

    March 6, 2020

    Microelectronic Sonnet I used to like to lounge around drinking gin & tonicup in Connecticut, next to the Housatonicback when everything struck me as ironic. Now I can barely remember that ancient sonicboom that…

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  • Squibs 388-394 [by Alan Ziegler]

    March 5, 2020

    388: In my small writer-in-residence cabin at Interlochen, I live as if I have several rooms, working wherever I wind up: curling up in corners, prone by the fireplace,  perching by the window, or…

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