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More on Split this Rock [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
The best thing about a poetry festival or conference is the opportunity to connect with fellow poets that are special in your life. Split This Rock Poetry Festival was fun because I got to…
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A Face To Meet The Faces That You Meat by Jim Cummins
Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said, "By the time a man is forty, he's responsible for his own face." I first read that long before I was forty, and it seemed to me…
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The Parody Corner
On Facebook I put up the lines, "The way you hold your knife, the way we danced until three, the way you changed my life. ." Within seconds Laura Orem completed the thought ("No,…
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We Make Huge Mistakes In Perception [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Can we talk a little more about the gym? First let me remind you of the weirdness of perception and the human capacity to be deceived. Only about twenty-five years ago many adult…
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“Eating Lunch with Nick Courtright” [by Peter Ferry]
I meet Nick Courtright for lunch at the Monument Café in Georgetown, Texas. I see the floor manager nod our way and say something to the waiter. I imagine that it is, “See the…
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“Adults Don’t Tell Other Adults What To Do” [by Jordan Davis]
Adults don't tell other adults what to do.This proposition strikes me as so importantI ought to preach it in the subway corridor — Hello, hear the good news and the thank you —Adults don't…
