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Next Line, Please: Six Ways Forward [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's prompt began with an aphorism from Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Followed by Mr. Lehman's modification: “Doubt isn’t any fun, but certainty is madness.” And finally,…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Barbara Jane Reyes
Brown Girl Sings Whalesong by Barbara Jane Reyes When they say you are as big as a lumpy, blubbery whale, …
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My favorite song by Burton Lane [by David Lehman]
"and Franklin Roosevelt's looks give me a thrill"
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“Their Lonely Betters” [by W. H. Auden]
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin…
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An Interview with Tom Sleigh [by Nin Andrews]
NA: I just finished reading your book of poetry, House of Fact, House of Ruin, and your essay collection, The Land Between Two Rivers, and I am, quite simply, in awe. I don’t know…
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Calling all tattooed poets: Tattoosday Wants You! [by Stacey Lehman]
Poet Ryan Black photo (c) Bill Cohen Hard to believe but it's been 10 years since we have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets…
