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Remembering Robert Hershon [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Like many others, I am deeply saddened over the death of my dear friend Bob Hershon on March 20, 2021. Bob was smart, funny, and generous. He was also a wonderful…
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RIP Adam Zagajewski: “Black birds pace the fields. . .”
Adam Zagajewski, who died Sunday, the first day of spring, age 75, was a wonderful poet and sweet gentleman. This is from "Self-Portrait": Black birds pace the fields, waiting patiently like Spanish…
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Grains of Paradise – for Adam Zagajewski [poem by Angela Ball]
Grains of Paradise -for Adam Zagajewski The time of impossible friendships, cruel steps, the time of refrigerated semi-trucksand their willing assistance, the time of I-pad goodbyes, of casual stock, pastured, backsto the wind,…
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Overcoming Writer’s Block with Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown (by Nin Andrews)
Many years ago, my shy teenage son came home from high school and said he had almost spoken in class that day. “But the words got stuck right here," he said gesturing at the…
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“Mourning the Loss of Bob Hershon” [by Thomas Devaney]
Mourning the loss of Bob Hershon. His life-long work at Hanging Loose Press is beyond measure. Bob’s poems, with their "downhome speech," lead with the heart. The one where he puts his hand back…
