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A Conversation with Derrick Austin, Author of Trouble the Water [by Susan Elliott Brown]
Reading Derrick Austin’s acclaimed debut collection Trouble the Water is a raw, emotional experience that stays with you long after you finish it. The poems are complex, and their subject matter and locations span…
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Facing Down Danger (and Its Aftermath): A Conversation with Catherine Pierce, Author of The Tornado Is the World [by Susan Elliott Brown]
Catherine Pierce’s widely anticipated third book The Tornado Is the World takes readers on a frightening, perilous, and ultimately enlightening excursion as a deadly tornado threatens to decimate a town and its people. The…
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Susan Elliott Brown Guest Author February 6-10
photo (c) Eric Gray This week we welcome Susan Elliott Brown as our guest author. Susan is the author of the chapbook The Singing Is My Favorite Part. Her poetry appears in The Best American…
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Harry Mathews, 1930-2017 [by David Lehman]
The Times published an obituary for Harry Mathews on Thursday. Written by Sam Roberts, the piece is headlined “Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86.” I had learned of his death from…
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“Next Line, Please”: this week’s challenge. . .
Go to an art museum—or to the website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum—and write a sonnet about the painting you name in your title. Remember to pivot after line eight, whether you rhyme or…
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MARK HALLIDAY AT “DECALS OF DESIRE” [by Martin Stannard]
In 2003 I was invited to read at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on England’s east coast. At the welcome party I was buttonholed by the Festival director, who said she had someone she wanted…
