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Full of Strange Experience: Seven Brief Reviews by Dante Di Stefano
Swarm Queen’s CrownStephanie Adams-SantosFathom Books, 2016 Stephanie Adams-Santos’ collection of finely-wrought, barbed, numinous lyric poems weaves from “a few warbled jags of wind” a laurel for all searchers enthralled and menaced by the beauty…
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Dancer and Poet Meet at the Barre [by Charise M. Hoge]
How does a poet know how to phrase writing? How does a dancer know how to phrase movement? In a turning point of enjambment the phrase hangs in mid-air…this sounds like dance, and this…
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Charise M. Hoge, Guest Author January 15-19
This week we welcome Charise M. Hoge, MA, MSW, as our guest author. Charise is a dance/movement therapist, performing artist, and writer. Her work in arts and healing has brought wellness programs into hospitals,…
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Two Poems by Bob Holman: You Choose!
Here are two poems by Bob Holman. You are asked to choose between them. Much depends on your choice. For it has been said that there are two kinds of people in the world,…
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Creativity Rules: Constraints and Freedoms, Part Deux [by Amy Lemmon]
It was bound to happen: no sooner did I publish my last post than I realized that there was already a wonderful series of posts on this very blog by Tess Callahan about the power of…
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What is Love? Baby Don’t Hurt Me. [by Val Vinokur]
Last summer I launched a small press: Poets & Traitors. The first book was by Ahmad Al-Ashqar––Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations form Mahmoud Darwish––and it set the template for the kinds of books…
