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There Is Wind, There Are Matches, by Gerald Stern
Embed from Getty Images The last few weeks in the news have been . . . Well, honestly, I don’t think I have words for them yet, and so I have retreated this weekend into poems, and into handling such delayed tasks as (finally) working out the settings between the microphone and the new laptop,…
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Swing, a School Bus Poem
In keeping with the request that I share more of my published poems, here’s a clip from part of a longer reading at the Joseph Priestley Memorial Chapel in Northumberland Pennsylvania. Two months later this poem appeared in the pages of Contemporary American Voices alongside the excellent poets Brian Fanelli and Jason Allen. Swing While I was…
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Young Word Fountain Poet Competes in DC
I’ve been sharing a few posts from Word Fountain, the newly revived little literary magazine I have the honor of editing. We’ve been posting the pieces of the current issue that will go together to become the online version. Along with those pieces and bios, we’ve tried to include some links to the authors’ work…
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Brian Dean Powers, Summer 2016
Originally posted on Word Fountain: My Voice Brian Dean Powers I always sound hoarse. Like a radio half-tuned to the station. It’s hard to make myself heard. I repeat myself often, every day. It’s hard to make myself heard. That’s the voice I have. I can’t converse in noisy places. Don’t ask me to speak…
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For the Man in the Museum, by David J. Bauman
For the details of why I am posting this here, you can review the last post. Let’s keep this simple. I’m sharing a couple of poems of mine that were published three years ago by Word Fountain, the Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library. At that time I had no idea that I would…
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On Selecting Optics, by David J. Bauman
I am sometimes asked why I don’t post more of my poems here, and I think I’ve answered that question on this blog’s Poet bio, but to put it succinctly, if I publish it myself, even here on this little blog, most literary magazines will not want to publish it. Yes, works posted on blogs…
