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Tami Haaland, Guest Author Beginning October 31
We'd like to welcome back Tami Haaland as our guest author. Tami will be posting weekly during her stint teaching at a small school near Stuttgardt, Germany. Tami is the author of three poetry collections, What…
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Interview with Tony Towle [by Jess Matuozzi]
[Guest Author Note: Thank you to Jess and Tony for this fascinating interview and to Hanging Loose Press for permission to reproduce the poems discussed in it!] JM: Your poetry taps out a wry…
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John Ashbery’s Visit with High School Students [by Andrew McCarron]
[Guest Author Note: Scholar and poet Andrew McCarron has kindly shared with us this transcript of a delightful Q&A session between the late great John Ashbery [pictured left] and Andrew's high school students at…
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On the Life and Poetry of William C. Mullen (1946-2017) [by Anthony Antonucci and Andrew McCarron]
[Guest Author Note: I asked Andrew McCarron and Anthony Antonucci to share the news of their project to write a literary biography of their friend and mentor the classicist and poet William Mullen. Their…
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Next Line, Please: It Was I [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week on Next Line, Please contributors laid out false confessions on a surprisingly eclectic mix of topics. Charise Hoge’s “Shooting for the Moon” wins the "sonority prize" for the run of rhymes that energizes it: They…
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“Dusk” [by Amy Gerstler]
Dear, I can’t subsist on this diet(really more of a fast—celeryseed and a soft word every othermonth) any longer. Is that bloodon your pillowcase or another girl’slipstick? I want you to knowI’ve had such…
