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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 13, 2023
Robert Bly (via Rothenberg, Kelly, and Lorca) popularized deep-image prose poetry that emphasized concentrating on concrete images to arrive at spiritual meaning. Decades later photographer Jody Servon and poet Lorene Delany-Ullman re-energize this concept…
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Poetry (God), the Problem: a Few Mystical Reflections on Writing Poetry (by Nin Andrews)
The other day, Anne, my yoga teacher began class by saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears. So says Lao Tzu.” I couldn’t stop myself from correcting her, “Nope, he never said…
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A Few of my Favorite Blurbs [by Alan Ziegler]
I told Alan that when I was general editor of the U of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry series,I offered to publish Richard Howard's Collected Blurbs. He liked the idea. Then we playeda game…
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Kathleen O’Toole: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________ Those Reels skip from Billy's accordion skim the polished floorboards ’til they land…
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The Peter Pan Syndrome: “I am Charlie Brown” [by Joe Lehman]
I should thank Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Steadfast Tin Soldier (and Jon Voight, for that matter) for shaping me as the man I am now. And of course, I should include Peanuts…
