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Hoping It Might Be So [by Nin Andrews]]
There’s something wrong with me. I think this every year in December. Because I don't like Christmas. To be fair, I don’t like any holidays. No, I like ordinary days, immemorable moments. I love…
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In Favor of Thomas Traherne [by David Lehman]
The blessed babe in a divine Eden is a Romantic trope, but it received a pure exposition long before the age of Blake and Wordsworth. A shoemaker’s son from Hereford, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) captured…
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“Stalin’s Holidays” by John Forbes [Thomas Moody]
"Stalin's Holidays" is the title poem of John Forbes' second collection. Happy holidays! Stalin's Holidays The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Juniper berries bloom in the heat. My…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 27, 2023
Earlier this year, Souvenir Spoon Books published Gregg Shapiro’s Refrain in Light. With its sly nod to the 1980’s album by the Talking Heads, Refrain in Light embraces the historical geography of place, remembering what has come…
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Three Poets: Elizabeth A. I. Powell, James McCorkle, & Rick Bursky [by Nin Andrews]
Last week I started a series called A Virtual AWP, featuring poets that I would have loved to have met or heard read or lecture, whose books I'd have bought and had signed, had…
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Avid Reader: On Bob Gottlieb [by David Lehman]
Did you know that in college Richard Howard was known as Dick Howard? Or that Robert Gottlieb, one of the great names in American book publishing, got his first job (at Simon & Schuster)…
