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  • An Interview with Amanda Rabaduex, Poet and Intern for Etruscan Press [by Nin Andrews]

    April 10, 2022

    I’ve had the good fortune of being published by a few different presses, and while I am enormously grateful to all of them, I have found some easier to work with than others. Etruscan…

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  • Memories of Richard Howard [by Jim Cummins]

    April 9, 2022

    I had a funny "causerie" moment with Richard.  Sheila Guckenberger brought her daughter, Kristin, to the event and then left her with me in the office; Kristin was six.  That was okay until Kristin…

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  • Gilbert and Ernest Discuss “Rhymes Rooms’ by Brad Leithauser

    April 8, 2022

    Gilbert: You poets are incorrigible optimists. Ernest: What makes you say so? Aren’t poets always complaining that no one reads their work? Gilbert: With some justice, too. Poetry is in a state of perennial…

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  • “Modern Love”: XVII [by George Meredith]

    April 8, 2022

    At dinner, she is hostess, I am host.Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keepsThe Topic over intellectual deepsIn buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost.With sparkling surface-eyes we ply the ball:It is in truth a…

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  • Is Mom Dead, too? [by Charles (Bud) Dillon]

    April 8, 2022

    In the 1960s, the United States of America was home to a hundred million monarchies, lorded over by moms and dads who wielded absolute power over their children, ruling as if by divine right.…

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  • Tube Station (1932) [by Cyril E. Power]

    April 7, 2022

    Tube Station (1932) by Cyril E. Power (Metropolitan Museum, NYC)

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