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How does it go? Feed a cold, starve an artist? Or, “Shout Out Tuesday” [by Amy Lawless]
Hey everyone! It's the day before St. Patrick's day! I know all you Irish out there are in the last day of "The Master Cleanse" so you can drink your weight in beer…
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Spring Resolutions (by Laura Orem)
The snow is gone, the sun is out, and green things are poking up through the dirt. Today I started cleaning up the old weeds and overgrowth that I left at the end of…
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Concentrate [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I got the idea for this post while playing Bejeweled Blitz. Have you ever tried meditation? Of course you have, right, if you’re sufficiently inclined towards transcendence as to read a poetry…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Douglas A. Martin and Lee Upton read at KGB last night. The audience begged for an encore, and they got it. Here are some highlights: Douglas A. Martin is the author most recently of…
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Prayer to Saint Patrick (Terence Patrick Winch)
When I was a boy growing up in an Irish immigrant household in the Bronx, March 17th was second only to December 25th in its potent mix of religion, magic, and celebration. We'd wait…
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” -Shelley [by Amy Lawless]
If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? Shelly wrote hundreds of thousands of years ago that the poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.…
