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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Wordsworth at Passover
Guest post by Alicia Jo Rabins One of the fantastic things about the Torah as a literary work is how it combines impossibly broad swaths of narrative (the world is created, a flood destroys it, etc.) with precise details (Rachel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Jo Rabins, Guest Bloggers, Passover, seder, William Wordsworth
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Marc J. Straus, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Our final Contributor’s Annex for the Tony Hoagland issue! Thanks to all our Contributors for their insight and support. Marc J. Straus has three collections of poems from TriQuarterly Books-Northwestern University Press: One Word (1994), Symmetry (2000), and Not God … Continue reading
Shall I Compare Thee to a Taco Bell?: Pop in Poetry
Guest post by Peter B. Hyland In 1877, Joseph Ray, M.D.–”late professor in Woodward College”–published Ray’s New Practical Arithmetic. I own a copy for some reason, part of a small collection of nineteenth-century books that my father-in-law gave me, containing … Continue reading
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Tagged Barbara Hamby, Guest Bloggers, Keanu Reeves, Peter B. Hyland, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Matrix
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Travel, Tor House, and Negative Capability
Guest post by James Arthur During the last few years I’ve been lucky enough to have some opportunities to travel, and not surprisingly, the places I’ve visited have begun showing up in my poems. In fact, these days when I … Continue reading
Sneak Preview of our Spring 2010 Issue
Readers and writers need to know what’s happening–Where are the new poets, how are the established poets, what is fiction really up to these days? It is the chance at variety that remains essential. –Elizabeth Strout on guest editing Ploughshares … Continue reading
Spiritual Twins, Poetry Chavrutas
Guest post by Alicia Jo Rabins There’s nothing like those years when you don’t yet have what you are working for. There’s a lot of freedom because there’s so much possibility. You need friends who are working for something, too…Everything … Continue reading
Posted in The Writing Life, Writing
Tagged Alicia Jo Rabins, Anna Deveare Smith, chavruta, Guest Bloggers, Torah
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Kathryn Starbuck, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Kathryn Starbuck is the author of Griefmania, from Sheep Meadow Press, 2006. (Read “Thinking of John Clare” from Griefmania here.) Her poems appear in The Best American Poems 2008, The New Republic, The Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, AGNI Online, Harvard … Continue reading
Broken Plank & Immortal Veil
Guest post by Peter B. Hyland In book five of The Odyssey, the sea goddess Ino comes to the aid of a storm-tossed Odysseus. She emerges from the waves and loans him her veil, a talisman that ensures he will … Continue reading
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Tagged Guest Bloggers, Peter B. Hyland, T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Odyssey
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Extreme Isolation
Guest post by James Arthur Several years ago, I had a brief, obsessive relationship with Winged Migration, a 98-minute documentary about birds, and I went to see it three times in theaters around Seattle. To my outrage, every time I … Continue reading
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Tagged Guest Bloggers, headphones, James Arthur, Winged Migration
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Lisa Russ Spaar, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Lisa Russ Spaar‘s most recent poetry collection is Satin Cash (read “The Geese,” or other excerpts here). She edited Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems and All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, and appears in Best American Poetry 2008. Her … Continue reading
