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Laura Orem Presents a Poem by Jim Valvis
How many poems can you name that explore the complicated relationship between fathers and sons? There are a lot. Some of the best and most-well known are Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"; Hayden's "Those Winter…
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A LETTER AND POEMS FROM ISH KLEIN [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
Ish Klein’s poems are a synthesis of imagination, virtuosity, and feeling the likes of which I’ve never seen before. For this post, I asked Ish to write a poetics statement and asked if I…
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Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Angie Estes
When I was a child, I often searched the sky for rainbows and the meadows for 4-leaf clover, two things that never satisfied me – the former were never as bright as I had…
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Robert Fernandez, Guest Blogger July 8-14
This week we welcome Robert Fernandez as our guest blogger. Robert is the author of We Are Pharaoh and the forthcoming Pink Reef, both from Canarium Books. Poems from Pink Reef have appeared (or are…
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POEMS BY AMELIA ROSSELLI AND A CONVERSATION WITH ROSSELLI TRANSLATOR DIANA THOW [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
Please welcome the scholar and translator Diana Thow, who for today’s entry has generously provided poems from her translation of Amelia Rosselli’s Serie Ospedaliera (Hospital Series) in addition to some illuminating and insightful Rosselli context and…
