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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 4 — Hinemoana Baker’s ‘Burial’
Burial For Joe Now the grandsons have a job they can do.Are they paint or shadow?There is something of the swan about them.Are there birds on the horizon?Clouds of black rise from their shovels,…
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John Lane Guest Author July 14-18
This week we welcome back John Lane as our guest author. John is a professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. His latest…
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In Today’s Wall Street Journal: ‘Carpe Diem’ in 46 Immortal Lines [by David Lehman]
Yao Xiao The most marvelous seduction poem in the English language combines the logical precision of the mathematician with the wit of a courtier and passion of a lusty lover. Andrew Marvell's "To His…
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Meet the [New] Poet: Cori A. Winrock [by Rochelle Hurt]
Cori A. Winrock is another new poet whose work I've been seeing (and loving) everywhere. She agreed to answer some questions and share a poem below. Cori A. Winrock’s first book, This Coalition of Bones,…
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Throwback Thursday: Suicide & Biography in Poetry [by Rochelle Hurt]
It’s Throwback Thursday. For those of you who aren’t on social media, that means we all post Polaroids of ourselves in the ‘80s, or something like that. I wasn’t very interesting in the ’80s,…
