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Florence Cassen Mayers: “The sestina is my poetry”
Dear David (2) I’ve been meaningto thank you so much for publishing my workon The Best American Poetryblog a few months back.Isn’t it the same old same old: well meaning folk post great feedback,then…
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A 21ST CENTURY RAIN: Interview with Brian Turner, Author of My Life as a Foreign Country [Kelle Groom]
photo (c) Kim Buchheit Brian Turner’s latest book is My Life As a Foreign Country: A Memoir published by Jonathan Cape/Random House UK (June 2014) and in the U.S. by W.W. Norton & Co.…
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“Before You Were Born” [by Michael Lally]
I could memorize my poemsand declaim them from stagesin avant-garde spaces andcoffee house traces ofsomebody else's ideasand call it performance art,but I already did thatbefore you were born. I could put them on stages…
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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 10–Tom Weston’s ‘The Old Dog’
The Old Dog A slipping away on this still day. Autumn in the warmth that is the wood of things. A comfort in the…
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Kelle Groom, Guest Author August 25-29
This week we welcome Kelle Groom as our guest author. Kelle's poetry collections are Five Kingdoms, recognized in Entertainment Weekly's "Best New Poetry" (Anhinga Press); Luckily, a Florida Book Award winner (Anhinga); and Underwater City (University…
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Seeking peace by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
(ed note: another wise post by Rachel. sdh) Lately I've been working on finding the right balance between paying attention to the world and its many injustices, and cultivating an internal sense of peacefulness…
