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  • Making Your Way in Poetry without an MFA (by Sonja Johanson)

    October 10, 2016

        My first morning at Bread Loaf, our workshop leader asked if everyone was familiar with the Iowa workshop model. I raised my hand. “I’ve never taken any kind writing class or workshop in my…

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  • Sonja Johanson, Guest Author October 10-14

    October 9, 2016

     This week we welcome Sonja Johanson as our guest author. Sonja is president of the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association. She is a contributing editor at the Found Poetry Review, and the author of Impossible Dovetail…

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  • For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Steven Cordova

    October 9, 2016

      LYCANTHROPES IN LOVE by Steven Cordova   The first man is in a chair, his barber behind himshaving the hairs off the back of his neck. There's another, a second man:He's in the…

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  • In Favor of Thomas Traherne [by David Lehman]

    October 7, 2016

    The blessed babe in a divine Eden is a Romantic trope, but it received a pure exposition long before the age of Blake and Wordsworth. A shoemaker’s son from Hereford, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) captured…

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  • The thousand million happinesses of Léon Blum, once prime minister

    October 7, 2016

    Series 1, Part 2: On whether she comes running at the snap of my fingers, the bonheur of Fifi here-below, the righteous rage of the Ohio-soul, a woman’s wrath, the true niceties of human…

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  • Poetry And Parenting [by Carlie Ramer]

    October 5, 2016

    I am somebody’s mother. I wear that fact like a favorite dress. For a long time, there was mud or sand on the hem, and I wore that happily as well. Finger paint smudges…

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