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Next Line, Please: Patricians, Peasants, and the Marriage Equation [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Two weeks ago, Ringmaster Lehman provided us with an extraordinarily fruitful prompt concerning the power dynamics inherent in romantic love. Inspired by John Updike’s Couples, NLP writers were tasked with responding to the claim…
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Day #4: “Spell of the Snow Hole, Part II” [by Cassandra Cleghorn]
Yesterday's hike, along the same route I hiked four months ago, was another story entirely. Trees in full leaf, 75 degrees, and my mind full of mother. I didn't recognize her presence right away.…
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“The American Journal of Poetry” Comes Through
With Kim Addonizio, Bruce Bond, Denise Duhamel,David Kirby, Nancy Mitchell, J. Allyn Rosser, Ryan Wilson, and a cast of baker's dozens http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/index.html Here is my own effort from the new issue: Texting Does…
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Hiking Notes #3; “Spell of the Snow Hole, Part I” [by Cassandra Cleghorn]
Here's the third in my series of Hiking Notes — thinking about what happens to my writing mind when I take to the trail. The Snow Hole, a popular hiker's destination in the Berkshires,…
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Squibs 309—312 [by Alan Ziegler]
309: I have an appointment with my room. But my room doesn’t show. I wait and wait but there’s nowhere to sit, nothing to read. My legs grow weary, so I go home. And there’s…
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“Signs of the Times” by David Lehman [reviewed by Merle Rubin}
A favorable review will warm an author's heart even if he becomes aware of it some twenty-eight years — to the day — after it was published. De Man's Deconstruction [in the Christian Science…
