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AWP CONFERENCE – CHICAGO – 2012 (by Jim Cummins)
Along with approximately 10,999 other registrants, I attended the recent AWP Conference in Chicago earlier this month. I also attended the first Woodstock, in August, 1969. They were similar events, minus the rock bands…
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Rebecca Lindenberg, Guest Blogger March 18-24
This week we welcome back Rebecca Lindenberg as our guest blogger. Rebecca is the author of the poetry collection LOVE, AN INDEX (McSweeney's Poetry Series, 2012). Her poems, essays, and criticism appear in The…
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Funeral Potatoes (by Rebecca Lindenberg)
This past Christmas, my parents came out here to Utah for the holidays, and the four of us (myself, Joseph, and my mom and dad) went out to Bountiful, Utah for a…
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“But if you haven’t a sou / there’s only one thing to do . . .
We drove from Ithaca, NY to Manhattan yesterday and at around exit 92 on NYS Rte 17, this song came up in the rotation. Even though I know it well, it was as if…
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A few lovely lines . . .
Poets, though divine, are men; Some have loved as old again. And it is not always face, Clothes, or fortune gives the grace, Or the feature, or the youth; But the language and the…
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Further Adventures in the Jell-O Belt [by Rebecca Lindenberg]
In the beginning of the film Napoleon Dynamite, the credits come up as a collage of weird culinary Americana – ketchup and tater tots, mustard and corn dogs, peanut…
