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Amy Lingafelter, Guest Author September 21-25
This week we welcome Amy Lingafelter as our guest author. Amy's short collection Return of the Fist came out in the Lost Horse Press Series New Poets / Short Books edited by Marvin Bell in 2009. Her poems have…
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Casting the Net [by Vincent Katz]
As this is my final post as guest author, I would like to cast my net and highlight some of the interesting books that have come across my desk in recent months: Diane di…
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Kudos to Tom Clark [by Vincent Katz]
Over the past 5 years, Tom Clark has been quietly publishing some of the best work of his life (which is saying a lot). I identify the following books of poems: Feeling for the…
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Poem: Dante Lucked Out [by David Lehman]
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465. Photo from Wikipedia T. S. Eliot held that Dante was luckyto live…
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Trochaic Theory Favors Sanders, Fiorina, Rubio [by David Lehman]
(Ed note: Pundits have begun to ask David Lehman to apply his trochaic theory of predicting election outcomes to the current slate of candidates, both Democrat and Republican. He first described the theory on…
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Tales of the Nineties: “Because We Matter Too Much in this World….” [by Alan Ziegler]
I dream I’ve taken Dulcinea, our dusky conure, outside to accompany me on my rounds as she does in the apartment, clasped to my shoulder, leaning this way and that. But the weather turns…
