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Blast from the Past: Rigoberto González tells his truth about BAP 2007
<<<’Fess up. You bought a copy. I did this year, anyway. I actually buy the essay and short story anthologies in the Scribner Best of series year after year without fail because I tend to…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 10, 2024
Lately I have been with obsessed with the sonnet—all it can hold within those 14 lines. So many variations of the sonnet (Coleman, Hayes, Hamby, just to name a few!)…Enter Aaron Smith who uses…
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“Passing Through Chicago” by Petra White [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Petra White has published five collections of poetry, including her most recent Cities (Vagabond Press, 2021). Here debut collection, Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press, 2007) was shortlisted for both the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the…
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Somerset Maugham: on Art, with Heart
“I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed. On taking thought it…
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May Swenson’s Four-word Lines
To welcome the new year, I turn to May Swenson and her poem “Four-Word Lines” for a prompt that I enjoy doing. Swenson’s poem explains itself and its procedures better than a paraphrase: Your…
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Chris Banks: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ The Garden of Human Delights Not that I ogle Rubens’ nudes any more than the…
