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Interview: Poet Matthew Lippman, Author of The New Year of Yellow
Boston dad reveals his secrets of literary success
Read More »The Best Reads of 2009
Just because you're expanding your mind doesn't mean you can't have fun doing it.
Read More »Book Review: War Dances by Sherman Alexie
That's the ultimate magic trick behind a short story and Sherman Alexie is a conjurer without equal.
Read More »Book Review: “Self-Surrender,” “Peace,” “Compassion,” & “The Mission Of The Goose”: Poems And Prayers From South India by Appayya & Nila-kantha Dikshita And Vedanta Deshika
Perhaps we should leave the translation of works in other cultures to them and stick to our own in future.
Read More »The Rockologist: The Thought, The Thump, And The Poetry
Putting the thump into the thought.
Read More »Verse Chorus Verse: Tuatara – “A Grainy Taste”
I love this world...
Read More »Keats in Love
A new movie explores poet John Keats's love affair with Fanny Brawne.
Read More »Book Review: Strange Movie Full Of Death – Poetry By Scott Wannberg
The emotional and spiritual realities, the toll it takes on all of us, of living in the early part of the twenty-first century in America.
Read More »Book Review: Up at the Villa by Linda Dini Jenkins
Sweet essays, drawings, photos and poems accompany a travel narrative
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