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Heartfelt Felicitations, David Wagoner
on the occasion of his receiving the American Academy of Arts and Letters Arthur Rense Prize given every three years to a "poet of consistent excellence over a long career." David edited the superb…
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She Heaps Up, by Amy Holman
Today, I set my torch aglow on my hillfort, but not in warning to the next guest blogger, rather to signal welcome to this fine community before I go off to forage. I have…
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Notes on Being A Trapped Animal, by Amy Holman
In the twelfth grade when I felt trapped by other girls, school, shyness, New Jersey, and being seventeen, there was at least some poetry. I could write it, sort of, and I could read…
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – 100 Years Ago Today by Stacey Harwood
קרבנות פֿונעם טרײַענגל־פֿײַער ליגן צוגעדעקט אויף דער גאַס (Credit: Forward Association) Both my maternal and fraternal grandmothers were among the scores of eastern European immigrants who worked in sweatshops during the early part of…
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This just in . . . Calling All Poets: Write a poem for a good cause!!
My friend Susan Pattenaude, a senior domestic violence attorney with The Legal Project in Albany, NY writes to tell me about a poetry contest for a good cause. This is near to my heart…