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Day Two of Five days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “Regrets”
Regrets OMGWhat’ve I done?Agreed to write5 sestinas on the IncredibleSestina Anthology?Time’s almost up. I really fucked up big, OMG,this time.Have I ever done anything so incredibly stupid? Write five? What’ll I write?Am I upto…
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Burning Down the Forest, Like Thoreau, and Poets Eating Poets [by Nick Courtright]
For decades, The Forest Service had a program of trying to put out every fire immediately, which was a disastrous error. This is because fires are natural, and they keep highly flammable undergrowth from…
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What Really Happened at Lehman Brothers [by David Lehman]
Fortunately for the family, my uncles and brothers had liquidated most of their holdings in the firm by the time of its collapse in September 2008. Nevertheless, whether out of nostalgia or pure forgetfulness,…
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Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers. Day One: “Dear David”
Dear David How gracious youare to ask me to writefiveblogs about the sestinasin Dan’s book his incredible book.As you know, sestinas are what I write.I’ve never written a blog. I’m filled with terror: five!…
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Unscrew the Doors Themselves from Their Jambs! [by Nick Courtright]
You can’t write a poem so that that poem can be famous. You can only write a poem that is worthy of being famous. And if it does not become famous? Maybe it was…
