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“How to Write a Villanelle” [by Martin Stannard]
Click here for "How to Write a Villanelle" — and below that "How toi Write a Sonnet" — by Martin Stannard, who writes: <<<Good morning, and welcome to August. This is to announce…
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Summer of Fruit Tarts–Figgissimo [by Barbara Hamby]
The sauna of a Southern summer seems made for figs. When David Kirby and I bought our house, I discovered an old fig tree near the driveway and the vegetable garden. The woman who…
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Yolanda Wisher: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ 5 South 43rd Street, Floor 2 Sometimes we would get hungry for the neighborhood.Walk up the sidewalk…
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Reflections on Sam Truitt’s Tokyoatoto [by Andrew McCarron]
I am concluding my week of blog entries on the poet’s notebook with some reflections on the poet Sam Truitt’s marvelous recent book, Tokyoatoto (Station Hill Press, 2020). This book-length poem was composed…
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“There’s No Place Like Home” [by James Thurber]
Idling through a London bookstore in the summer of 1937, I came upon a little book called `Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France.' Written especially to instruct the English how to speak French in the train,…
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Olympic Musings [by Walter Carey]
"You know what expression I hate the most?""What?""When they say she, quote, settled for silver.""That's why I say fuck 'em." — in support of which I refer you to today's New York Post reporting…
