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Next Line, Please: Hamlet’s Ghostly Presence
This week on Next Line, Please, contributors responded to a prompt which asked for two stanzas, both ending with the phrase, "I could be wrong." Diane Laboda’s “Sabbath” provides awesome tension and complexity around…
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Happy Birthday Mr. B.! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine rehearsing "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (music by Richard Rodgers) with Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell, 1968. George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is permanently imprinted on my brain, perhaps because I saw…
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_________ is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth (by Nin Andrews, Nicole Santalucia & David Lehman)
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” Philip Larkin 1. This quote from Larkin made me ask myself, _______ are for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. I started to wonder how other…
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Go With the Groove [by Charise M. Hoge]
Dance is ephemeral while poetry has a chance to live on the page. But there are aspects of dance that I’d like to see happen in poetry––like gliding in and out of the wings…
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Quote of the Day: Coffee
This fun piece by Gabriela Gershenson reminded me of the following: "Coffee makes a sad man, cheerful; a languorous man, active; a cold man, warm; a warm man, glowing; a debilitated man, strong. It…
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Speaking in Simile [by Charise M. Hoge]
“It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way”––Christopher Morley Similes are the stuff of…yoga. In a given yoga…
