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Tuesday Review: Marjorie Maddox’s Wives’ Tales
In an effort to keep me on track with some promises and with my desire to read and review more poetry, here’s a new feature for you, Tuesday Reviews. There will be at least two kinds—the first we’ll call traditional reviews, hopefully with links to full reviews published elsewhere. The second sort will be the…
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Thursday Love Poem, Valentine’s Edition: Embarrassing Old Videos
Already it’s time again for a Thursday Love Poem. It’s a weird and slightly random feature—I don’t do it every Thursday. Generally, the TLPs are a little off from what you might normally consider a love poem, so if we’re going to be puritans about it, not all of the following poems quite fit the…
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Thursday Love Poem with Tony Hoagland
Preface If you are not upset or angry at the very mention of Tony Hoagland’s name, please skip ahead to part two and listen to my reading of his poem, “Windchime” before coming back to part one’s discussion. If, on the other hand, you are one of the many who are so unhappy with him…
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Saturday Songs with Arlo Guthrie
I’ve been quiet this month. Sorry about that. It’s been a rough start to 2019 for my boys and I. Since having what was really a lovely Christmas there have once again been hospitals and grief and pain. Reasons for discouragement, but also hope. Tonight I am thinking of a song by Arlo Guthrie when…
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Music Monday with my BF and Frosty!
Happy New Year, everyone! My sweetheart has been between keyboards for the last ten days, the keyboard on his computer and the keyboard on his . . . um, well, keyboard! It was brought to my attention that among the 12 days of Christmas, Christmas itself is only day #1 because the whole shebang doesn’t…
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New Published Poem, Stoplight
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: First of all, the poem below was recently published in the new online lit mag The Electric Rail. To read the whole issue click here. Stoplight I thought I’d never get to leave. They said “in a few days.” Then, “a few more days.” This time it was my…
