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Wrapping Up (posted by Bruce Covey)
Thanks, everyone, for your positive responses to yesterday’s post, both online and off! I’m happy I could help generate such a conversation! To clarify: The post was partially tongue-in-cheek, and the name of the…
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On Bliss and the Mind’s Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, I come to speak of daffodils not to bury bulbs of them. Here as we enter the entry to winter I thought I'd hinder the mundane with a bit of verse rapture…
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‘What I Can See from Here” [by Tom Disch]
Tom Disch excelled at every literary genre he tried his hand at and had big infuential fans and yet — and yet he was dogged by bad luck, by a prejudice against genre fiction…
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Awards for Poetry, Plus a New Anthology (posted by Bruce Covey)
This morning I decided to launch a major new poetry award, called The Super Important Totally Awesome Major Major International Poetry Award, with its easy-to-memorize acronym SITAMMIPA. It will carry as much prestige as…
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Ruth Stone, 1915-2011: “…and all along this stream was going along”
Ruth Stone died on Saturday, November 19, at her home in Vermont. (Here's the Times obit.) The poet, 96, toiled in obscurity for most of her life, her work a secret known and cherished by…
