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Happy 10th Anniversary Todos Santos Writers Workshop!
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, with the winter 2023 session running January 28 – February 4 in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico. Poet, author, journalist Christopher Merrill (above) is returning once…
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Ad-Verse Reactions: Poets / writers Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley quiz each other on advertising, pop culture, late-stage Capitalism and monsters
Both Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley have just released “new and selected” volumes. Both writers have had careers in advertising and PR. Both use pop culture (and many other related subject matters) as thematic…
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“Ode to the Other Woman’s Ass” [by Denise Duhamel]
Ode to the Other Woman's Ass You have occupied my husband’s imaginationwhen he otherwise might have been bored. You gave him pretty shapes to beholdat the mall, in the supermarket, when he peeredfrom behind…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: NOVEMBER 16, 2022
In the latest issue of Persimmon Tree, Cynthia Hogue curates a suite of poems on “Lament, Rage, and Resistance” focusing on the voices of second wave feminist poets Karen Brennan, Aliki Barnstone, Patricia Spears…
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“Days at the Races” [by Boris Dralyuk]
Days at the Races “Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.” — Groucho Marx Away they go, with their outlandish names,saddled with human baggage, desperate wagers —enough to make a thoroughbred go…
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Caravan Palace [by Lewis Saul]
French swing — or "Gypsy jazz" — originated with a group called the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Because Reinhardt was from…
