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  • “Yellow Wild Flower” [by Laura Cronk]

    March 15, 2022

    Yellow Wild Flower I can eat as much as a big man. Wiry stems scarf upsunlight, roots muscle through dirt getting at water.If I could walk, I would run. Instead I shoot upstarburst buds…

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  • The Ultimate Language Poem [in “The Shining” (1980)]

    March 14, 2022

    Wendy Torrence (Shelley Duval) discovers the "Language" poem that her husband Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) has been struggling to complete. — sdh  

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  • Diary as Form, or a Case for Hybrid Genres [by Megin Jimenez]

    March 14, 2022

    In one of her brilliant essays, poet and novelist Fanny Howe proposes the diary as the ultimate subversive genre: anarchic, directionless, unconcerned with narrative or context. (I believe it's in the collection The Wedding…

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  • Evie Shockley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 13, 2022

                              ______________________________________________________________________ quiet as it’s kept   no one tells you about these boys  :  their quiet feminism grows like wildflowers  : …

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  • Evie Shockley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 13, 2022

                              ______________________________________________________________________ quiet as it’s kept   no one tells you about these boys  :  their quiet feminism grows like wildflowers  : …

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  • Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Lynn Emanuel

    March 12, 2022

    Eavan Boland says that Lynn’s poems ‘have rare power: they connect to the world through estrangement.’ Yes, but that may sound forbidding. They’re also enormously playful and witty. She has an ‘Homage to Sharon…

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