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BOB GLASSMAN: AN APPRECIATION [by Peter Ferry]
Bob Glassman is an Evanston, Illinois, writer, editor, poet and maker of books who has written an epic prose poem called Abscission Layer that is one of the most original pieces I’ve ever read. …
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Next Line Please: Ten Down, Four to Go in the American Scholar’s Crowd-Sourced Sonnet
The American Scholar is on line ten of its crowd-sourced sonnet, thanks to readers' clever contributions. David Lehman recognizes runners-up and now includes a winner's circle in his weekly posts. Suggest line ten for…
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HOW I KNOW THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY’S DAVID LEHMAN: OXFORD, 1968 by Peter Ferry
I once heard Kurt Vonnegut says a writer has to believe that what he’s writing right now is the most important thing anyone has ever written. That was hard for me in the…
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Sunday, June 29, 2014: 44th Annual Gay Pride Parade [by Stacey Harwood]
Thanks to the repair work that’s ongoing here, there’s a temporary platform and scaffolding outside of our windows on the second floor. I was able to climb out on Sunday to take a few…
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A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SILVER (1928-2014) by Ira Sadoff
A few weeks ago I was looking for something to listen to, searching out – as I often do — a mood, a tone. I picked out Horace Silver’s Re-entry, a compilation of live…
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Rudyard and Me by Peter Ferry
When we were children our mother used to put us to bed at night and entertain us on long car trips with poetry. We loved ballads, and she knew a bunch of them by…
