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Grief Canning [by Barbara Hamby]
(Ed note: This post first appeared on this date in 2016 and it became the most popular post of the year, read and shared widely. It seems fitting to bring it back this year,…
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Today is National Dog Day: “Good Dogs” by Charles Baudelaire
5th Ave & 9th St., October 22, 2014 (photo by Stacey Lehman) Away with the academic muse! I have no business with that old prude. I invoke the familiar muse, the citizen, the boon…
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Everything in Its Place [by Adrienne Su]
Poet and memoirist Sandra Beasley cooks differently depending on whether she’s writing poetry or prose: “I’m a tremendous fan of mise en place; one of my favorite wedding gifts was a stack of glass…
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Lenny’s “Divertimento” [by David Lehman]
So you've never heart it before, / or even heard it, / you're driving on Highland Road when it starts, / and instead of driving up East Remington and home, / you drive down…
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Quote of the Day: Sylvia Plath
"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time." — Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, August, 1952
