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  • “PSA for the NRA” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary from Mary Jo Salter]

    December 13, 2021

    << A number of Stephen Kampa’s recent poems dare to look straight at our culture’s complacency about gun violence, and especially our inability to protect children’s lives.  Kampa’s poem “PSA for the NRA” (that…

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  • Gerald Fleming: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 12, 2021

                                _______________________________________________________ Brocade Dress   On the way back from the dance in the days of cars with bench seats, she…

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  • Gerald Fleming: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    December 12, 2021

                                _______________________________________________________ Brocade Dress   On the way back from the dance in the days of cars with bench seats, she…

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  • Style: You’ve either got or you haven’t got style

    December 12, 2021

    Happy birthday, Sir Francis Thanks to Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn: and thank you, Cole Porter:  

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  • Style: You’ve either got or you haven’t got style

    December 12, 2021

    Happy birthday, Sir Francis Thanks to Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn: and thank you, Cole Porter:  

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  • “A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme” [by Stanley Moss]

    December 10, 2021

    Ben Jonson indicated,never quite stated,God prefers to be praisedin various meters, prose or free verse,not in rhyme. I was raisedon rhyme and worse,taught by examplenot to praise God at all.I offer, Jonson was wrong,what…

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