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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. The most recent Poets and Writers contains an article on Sarah Manguso and her new memoir. I’m a bit memoired out. However, this sound like a real-life, true, […]

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I love Verse Daily!
Hey, the New York Times is okay, too.

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I liked this creepy poem with crows.

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Thanks to World Class Poetry, I spotted an online list of the Best New Poets 2007 selections. My copy of Best New Poets 2007 arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. The quality of the work is high as usual. BNP is one of my favorite anthologies.
Speaking of anthologies, I attended the No Tell […]

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For the past few months, I’ve been on a Joan Didion kick. I read the heart-breaking story of life after the death of loved ones in The Year of Magical Thinking. When the California wildfires happened, I read Didion’s essay on the Santa Ana winds.
Since the Santa Ana essay was published in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, […]

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Most likely, I’m one of the few who has not read The Corrections. One day, one day.
In the meantime, I’m reading a book of Franzen’s essays. He writes about the post office in Chicago during the time when mountains of mail were being found in the homes of postal employees, under bridges, in cars, etc.
How […]

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I had the pleasure of enjoying a copy of Ecotone, a magazine published by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington MFA program. Although I read Ecotone several months ago, I was impressed enough to keep my copy around. I thought of giving it away and then just could not bear to part with it […]

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Thanks to Dale for pointing this out. He is so good at keeping track of these awards!
32 Poems sends special congratulations to former 32 Poems contributors Stanley Plumly and David Kirby.

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I’ll get to them in a minute….
We rented a house on the top of a crest in the Shenandoahs to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents. We had sunset views from the front balcony, a hot tub in the back and an ever hopeful feeling we might see black bears drink from the […]

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A while back, I wrote about being a Wallace Stevens junkie. I read and re-read one of his poems and would get annoyed if the phone rang when I was in the middle of yet another reading of it.
I stumbled across this old post of mine and wondered (again) what poems we return to […]