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Sarah Kain Gutowski (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
I recently read a new chapbook of poems by a former colleague of mine. I thought the poems were so intelligently constructed, so perceptive that I wanted to introduce them to readers of The…
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Tonight at KGB: Joshua Beckman + Geoffrey G. O’Brien
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Joshua Beckman + Geoffrey G. O'Brien Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and…
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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 7): Gig Ryan
The Constant Measure The oven’s tipped open as a bar heaterits red art deco zags another age’sfaith in a designed centuryas a Chevrolet unscrolls up the hilland the painted-from-life steeple’spleated shadows carve out long…
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The Palpable Presence of Time: David Lehman on Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth's youthful verse gave way…
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The Mutual Muse: Playing Is The Thing [by Molly Peacock]
D.W. Winnicott’s marvelous book, Playing and Reality, published in the mid-20th century, describes the intermediate area between external and internal experience where we play. As children play, they define this arena, beginning their relationships…
