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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Random acts of poetry, communing with nature is not an excuse to get out of the office, going to class with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks with Seth Haines.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Should the Founding Fathers be booked for selling their used ones? Are public school students reading too much fiction? Are there too many poets writing too many poems? Which direction should I mow my lawn? Will Willingham has the answers to burning questions–or at least the burning questions–in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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A Winner for the Emily Dickinson Giveaway

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Glynn Young announces a winner for the free copy of Kristin LeMay’s “I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson.”

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

Cowboy Christmas poetry, book sculptures from a mystery artists, why business leaders need to pay poetry its due. Seth Haines has this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Top 10 Poetry Picks

Poetry on the cubicle farm, books from birdhouses and vending machines, and making rejection make you better. Will Willingham has our Top Ten Poetic Picks for this week.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Indoor art storms, poetry that works, and a literary contest for the po’boy lovers. Seth Haines has it all for you in This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Repurposing books into purses, the presidents’ favorite poetry, and why you need a contrarian in your life. Will Willingham has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 9 Comments

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Picasso scratch-off, Hurricane Sandy, and the mother of all field trips — Seth Haines has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Famous artwork as Halloween costumes, the future of the short storyteller, and a guy typing poetry on the street. All this and a little more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 4 Comments

A $130 million art heist, growing a beard like Walt Whitman, and Poe’s Raven teaches poetry at home. Seth Haines has this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Efrat Ben Zur and her new album, what’s Emily Dickinson got to do with it, our favorite writers. It’s this month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks!

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 4 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art I have always wondered about the resale market for stolen art. We’ve all seen the great art-heist capers where a stolen Monet was carried across the world in a courier tube and sold to some Italian billionaire who, despite running an […]

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Poets and Poems: Mary Brown and “Call It Mist”

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Flowers Brown

In “Call It Mist: Poems,” Mary L. Brown uses words like a surgeon’s scalpel, looking below the outwardly obvious to plumb rhe depths beneath.

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“Horace: Poet on a Volcano” by Peter Stothard

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In “Horace: Poet on a Volcano,” British author and journalist Peter Stothard tells the story of the Roman poet through his odes.

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Found in Translation: Gently May It Sing

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

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Come on a French translation adventure that encourages us to be gentle with ourselves, thanks to a poem by Hélène Cardona.

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Poets and Poems: The Three Collections of Pasquale Trozzolo

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In his three poetry collections, Pasquale Trozzolo explores the pandemic lockdown, the end of a relationship, and life in a small town.

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Poets and Poems: Teow Lim Goh and “Bitter Creek”

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“Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem” by Teow Lim Goh tells the story of Chinese immigration and how it affected the American West.

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Poets and Poems: Danelle Lejeune and “Incompleteness Theory”

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Phoenix Lejeune

In her new chapbook “Incompleteness Theory,” poet Danelle Lejeune successfully mixes poetry, science, and humor.

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