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A Fountain Pen [by Lera Auerbach]
Japanese Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach I think all poets should receive a fountain pen for each birthday. A fountain pen would remind them that someone loves them. It will also reinforce the…
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Two Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
Yeats/Koch 1. Eagerly I await my Yeats book — that is,The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Which I've ordered on Amazon from A Goodwill store in San Francisco. 2. Koch said, 'I want you…
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Five Recent Poems I Love [by Dante Di Stefano]
The following five poems were written by poets I deeply admire: Adam J. Gellings, Faisal Mohyuddin, Abby E. Murray, Nicole Santalucia, and Leah Umansky. I admire these poets because of their work, but also…
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Congratulations Emma Trelles, Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA
Ed note: Emma Trelles has been generously contributing here since the early days of this blog. We are thrilled to share the news that she has recently been made Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara,…
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Selfie with Marilyn Monroe: Writing in the Persona of Marilyn Monroe [by Heidi Seaborn]
She was a just postcard at the MOMA, a stamp of pink and lemon yellow. Her mouth, a red smear, slightly open. Is that a word forming, wanting to slip from tongue to lip…
