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  • Midnight Tears with Denise Duhamel, Gary Young, and Beth Gylys [by Nin Andrews]

    February 13, 2025

    “At midnight tearsRun into your ears.” ― Louise Bogan I feel as if we have just entered a new era, an era of midnight tears, an era that defies belief and sleep. Maybe that’s why…

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  • Chesterton Issues a Poetry Challenge

    February 13, 2025

      “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” — G. K. Chesterton.   Can you prove him wrong?

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  • “Clouds” by Francis Webb [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    February 12, 2025

    This past Saturday, 8 February, marked the centenary of the birth of Francis Webb, one of Australia’s major poets. A devout Catholic, Webb’s poetry is infused with a mystical, redemptive Catholicism, whose transcendent spirit…

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  • “To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” [by Rober Lowell]

    February 12, 2025

    "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" "It is the future generation that presses into being by means ofthese exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ours."– Schopenhauer "The hot night makes us…

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  • Matt Hart’s heartfelt Review of Paul Violi

    February 11, 2025

    From Matt Hart’s review of Paul Violi’s Overnight in ColdFrontMag: <<Violi has a penchant for creating works which WOBBLE back and forth between being formal-ish, language-game type poems and snapshots of language forms not ordinarily considered…

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  • Dan Rosenberg, Suzanne Brody, David Lehman: Poetry Reaading, Feb 11, 6 PM in Ithaca

    February 10, 2025

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