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Whence I Write [by Lynn Domina]
A few days ago, my friend Janet McAdams poked fun at me for referring to myself as a “Yooper.” I am accustomed to Janet’s teasing—we’ve been friends for over thirty years, and much of…
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Voltaire: “I disagree [with you] but will fight to the death to defend your right to say it. . .” [by David Lehman]
In Russia, according to the Independent, a vodka-soaked advocate of poetry killed a prose partisan in a brawl. Last month, apparently, a similar dispute, with the same fatal outcome, occurred over the theories of Immanuel…
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Lynn Domina, Guest Author September 12-16
This week we welcome Lynn Domina as our guest author. Lynn is the author of two collections of poetry, Corporal Works and Framed in Silence, (Four Way Books) and the editor of a collection of…
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Yoga on the beach: my prayers are ever blasphemies [by Tracy Danison]
Ne te fie aux apparences, pardner: the warming sun is a million miles off, the charming doohickeys jostling the surf are man traps from the last really big war and that man on sat…
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Part IV: Nibblers and Snow Cones [by Dean Smith]
Oriole starter Wade Miley took the loss Sunday against the Yankees. Since joining the O’s a few weeks ago, his name has been nibbling at the edges of my consciousness. I’d seen him pitch in…
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Save the Date: “Best American Poetry 2016” Launch Reading: Sept 22 at the New School in NYC
Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 For the fifteenth consecutive year, the New School Writing Program sponsors the launch…
