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The Poetry Editor is on Fire

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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. We recently accepted poems from:
Carol Frost–Wow, I love her work. And she writes nice emails.
Michael Burkard
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Brendan O’Connor
Douglas Basford
Frances Post
I find it heartening to read so much excellent […]

Goya in Rehoboth

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We’re heading to Rehoboth Beach, DE this weekend for some R&R.
I’m having the most trouble figuring out what books to bring. I remember reading an interview with Toni Morrison in which she said she packs the books first whenever she goes on a trip. Usually, I bring 5-10 books for a weekend and read […]

The Environment of a Poet and Creative Process

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Reb Livingston is redecorating and renovating. I find that exremely impressive,
because all I do is cover things with paint and buy modern furniture. My friend Eve is an architect and her husband is a carpenter. Together, they are dangerous. They move staircase one inch to the north, they install black counters in their kitchen, and […]

Online Mags: Do You or Don’t You?

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Perhaps this subject has been beaten to death, yet I’m interested in adding my ideas to the fray.
In conversation with various writers, I discovered more respect for print publications than for online publications. My feeling is that this is due to several reasons:
1. Print publications cost more to produce and therefore increase in perceived […]

Your Dark Creative Forces, Your Duende

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Do you ever have one of those moment when several topics you’re studying come together in one huge and exciting amalgamation of knowledge (?) and it hits you right in the gut?
I am studying southern Spain, Spanish, Spanish literature and, of course, poetry of all kinds and the following happened to me.
The other night […]

Take a Pill–a Beauty Pill

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My friend’s band is on tour. They’re called Beauty Pill. Go hear them in one of the fine cities mentioned on the link above.

Do Writers Devour Their Young?

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Victoria Chang posted part of an article from the Antioch Review (that she heard about from Josh Corey) about MFA programs and the lack of jobs for MFAs. Here’s a small part of the essay:
"Although we are, if only by reputation, wicked enough — indeed, hungry enough — to devour our own young, we seem […]

In Praise of Idleness–I’ll Second That

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"Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: ‘Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.’ Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my […]

Thanks to CR Jensen

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for pointing out this blog by Lyn Hejinian.

Can You Believe Yourself into Publication?

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Bear with me here. This post will meander away from writing and come back to it in the end.
For the past few months, I’ve been thinking on and off about the power of our minds to generate our reality. The Bible, Ghandi, many a quantum physicist and others have said that thoughts create our reality. […]