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PoetsArtists: Painting the Figure Now [by Didi Menendez]
View in Browser PAINTING THE FIGURE NOW Please join us at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art for the Opening Ceremony July 11, 2019 from 6 to 8 PM PAINTING THE FIGURE…
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On the Act of Blaming [by Lionel Trilling]
<<<He [Scott Fitzgerald] really had but little impulse to blame, which is the more remarkable because our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.…
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Indran Amirthanayagam—Poetic Globalist (Terence Winch)
Indran Amirthanayagam is one of the most remarkable figures roaming the contemporary poetic landscape. Like some of the poets he most admires—Cavafy, Neruda, Hikmet (all mentioned in the poem below)—he is a citizen of…
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Next Line, Please: Patricians, Peasants, and the Marriage Equation [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Two weeks ago, Ringmaster Lehman provided us with an extraordinarily fruitful prompt concerning the power dynamics inherent in romantic love. Inspired by John Updike’s Couples, NLP writers were tasked with responding to the claim…
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Day #4: “Spell of the Snow Hole, Part II” [by Cassandra Cleghorn]
Yesterday's hike, along the same route I hiked four months ago, was another story entirely. Trees in full leaf, 75 degrees, and my mind full of mother. I didn't recognize her presence right away.…
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“The American Journal of Poetry” Comes Through
With Kim Addonizio, Bruce Bond, Denise Duhamel,David Kirby, Nancy Mitchell, J. Allyn Rosser, Ryan Wilson, and a cast of baker's dozens http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/index.html Here is my own effort from the new issue: Texting Does…
