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  • ABOUT ERIC ERIC [by Martin Stannard]

    November 6, 2016

    Of course, it’s not his real name, though I am led to believe one half is real; the other half, as he once remarked, is “an act of concealment.” I first came across Eric…

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  • Pete Ferry Weighs in on the Cubs

    November 5, 2016

    Thoughts on Being a Cubs Fan Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  In The Great Gatsby, when Jordan Baker asks if she is missed in Chicago, Nick Carraway says, “The whole town is desolate.  All the…

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Roy Giles and Corey Mingura of Arcadia Press & Arcadia Literary Magazine

    November 5, 2016

    DD: Susan Howe famously ends her book, My Emily Dickinson, with the lines: “Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration beyond gender. Poetry is redemption from pessimism. Poetry is affirmation in negation, ammunition…

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  • “One Hundred Autobiographies”: A brief preview [by David Lehman]

    November 4, 2016

    <<< David Lehman, poet and columnist for our website, is writing a book about his cancer diagnosis and recovery. “In a way, the book has the logic of a poem,” he says. “But the…

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  • The origins of bus lateness [by Paul Tracy Danison]

    November 4, 2016

    Recursive quality of troublesome Concomitant Reality again spotted at Pyrénées crossing The origination battered-truck where the world snarl standing wave daily begins. Blame the worried guy if you will. Buy him a better hair…

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  • (Cor)respond(ences): On Collaboration & the Material Artifact [by Kristina Marie Darling]

    November 4, 2016

    Over the course of several months, I had the great privilege of corresponding with Virginia Konchan via post.  At the time, I was traveling from one literary arts fellowship to the next, and Virginia…

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