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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 30, 2023

    August 30, 2023

    We lost two amazing poets last week. Ed Ochester passed on August 22 and Maureen Seaton on August 26. Since 2000, Ed was my editor University of Pittsburgh Press. Maureen was my best friend…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 30, 2023

    August 30, 2023

    We lost two amazing poets last week. Ed Ochester passed on August 22 and Maureen Seaton on August 26. Since 2000, Ed was my editor University of Pittsburgh Press. Maureen was my best friend…

    Continue reading…

  • Joni Mitchell [by Lewis Saul]

    August 29, 2023

    Yes, lyricists and poets are different species. But for me, Joni has always been both. I like her early albums, but they lack gravitas — in both the compositions and lyrics. Beginning in 1974,…

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  • Joni Mitchell [by Lewis Saul]

    August 29, 2023

    Yes, lyricists and poets are different species. But for me, Joni has always been both. I like her early albums, but they lack gravitas — in both the compositions and lyrics. Beginning in 1974,…

    Continue reading…

  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]

    August 29, 2023

    Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you,turning now towards you, to the westand away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not?But the nominations have begun and soon…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]

    August 29, 2023

    Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you,turning now towards you, to the westand away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not?But the nominations have begun and soon…

    Continue reading…

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