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John Hollander, 1929-2013
Thomas McDonald for the New York Times Tributes to John Hollander, who died yesterday, have been circulating widely. We learned of his death from Amy Glynn Greacen, who had written this lovely piece…
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V. To China: Books from the Sky [by Sarah Howe]
a small jar of night a thousand frontiers carrying him the sky of old age continues the firing in the kiln continues arranging this pot plant lamplight a glazed hand refines a…
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A. Van Jordan Guest Author August 19-23
This week we welcome A. Van Jordan as our guest blogger. Jordan is the author of four collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was…
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Sonnet Xbox [by Laura Orem]
Shallow compare thee to a summer's day? Thou are more lovely and more temperature. You winds do shake the far buds of May, And summer's lead hath all too shot a day. Something too…
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IV. To China: Possession Point [by Sarah Howe]
…The sour tear-like orange was there like a clove of…
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Late Summer Reading (part 2): Rosie Schaap’s Drinking with Men [by Moira Egan]
I first “met” Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men, in a most unusual and literary way. Damiano and I had just finished up our “Poetry & Translation Song & Dance Routine,” as we…
