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Next Line, Please: Imaginary Trips to Real Places [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's Next Line, Please takes you for a spin around the world. The places are real and the experiences imagined, and yet there's something about this prompt that makes me feel like a tired,…
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Epigraph of the Month: JA quotes Pasternak on Mayakovsky
Here is the epigraph John Ashbery chose for his poem "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers":(in his first book, Some Trees): << He was spoilt from childhood by the…
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I Like Moll Flanders [by Molly Arden]
I like the book by DeFoe.The movie is only so so.But I should put that more positively.The movie is not ungood.My favorite left-handed complimentis what this guy I datedsaid when he saw me naked.He…
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The Mission Poetry Series Presents Marisol Baca & Christopher Buckley
The ninth season of the Mission Poetry Series wraps with a reading on Saturday, April 28, 2018, at 2 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Public Library. In Bright Sky Blue: Two Poets…
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Next Line Please: What’s in a Name? [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's post was a call for submissions with the following prompt: Pack your bags and set up your travel itinerary, because we are writing travel poems! But not in the way you'd have…
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The Well-Versed Movie [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Hope Davis finds a poem in "Day Trippers" In the opening pages of the novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s time-haunted heroine drifts toward Bond Street for some early-morning shopping, hardly noticing the busy thoroughfare as…
