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Preview from Paris: Michael Gorra’s “Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece” (by Alice Kaplan)
Last week I was wandering around the giant warehouse of a bookstore on the rue de Rennes called the FNAC, and in a fit of nostalgia I found myself face- to-face with the “Literary…
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Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Denise Duhamel
The poem I’m presenting today is by Denise Duhamel, one of America’s most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. I love the way she’ll grab hold of a thought that looks straightforward, then turns into…
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APOLLONIA: Greetings from Sifnos by John Hennessy
SIFNOS (c) IAN MacLELLAN Greetings from Sifnos, Greece, an island in the Western Cyclades, quiet sibling to the flashier and better known Santorini and Mykonos. Before I arrived this summer for my tenth…
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John Hennessy, Guest Blogger July 22-28
This week we welcome John Hennessy as our guest blogger. John is the author of Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point Books/Word Press 2007), a collection of poems, and his work appears or is forthcoming…
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Sharon Dolin: The Price of Beauty
photo by Michelle Acuff This is where I am living: where they grow sunflowers and are in love with nuclear power. This plant, Golfech Nuclear Power Plant in La Garonne, is so close that…
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Sharon Dolin: La Tour de France
I just arrived in the southwest of France (in the Midi-Pyrenees) to begin an artist residency at Le Moulin a Nef in a tiny village called Auvillar. Quite a culture shock after pinxtos…