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On Cocktail Parties and Being a Poet by Vandana Khanna
This weekend is the beginning of an array of “holiday” festivities awaiting me—houses humming with sweater-adorned bodies sipping equally adorned cocktails. Everything smells vaguely of pine, cinnamon and candle wax. The food and…
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On Rejections by Vandana Khanna
Type in the word rejection into any search engine and you’ll probably get the images of writers and actors. Yes, it took me exactly three days of blogging to bring up rejection. I’m…
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Break-Up Poems by Vandana Khanna
This fall I’ve been teaching creative writing again in a traditional classroom with 20 year olds. Their smooth, unlined faces stare back at me with an array of emotions ranging from skepticism to wonder…
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Hump Day Highlights
Another terrific review, this one by Grace Cavelieri, in this month's Washington Review of Books: "Lehman is a combination of Mark Twain, Charlie Rose and John Le Carre with a little John Donne thrown…
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On Best of Lists by Vandana Khanna
It’s that time of the year when everything is strangely candy-cane scented and glittering with a tourniquet of lights. We are anxious with our lists, with our need to prove our thoughtfulness. We…
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My First-Ever Blog Post Accompanied by a Confession by Vandana Khanna
I feel it’s only right to confess something in my first-ever blog post, (deep breath): I like to read other people’s blogs, especially poets I don’t know personally. For the past decade or…
