PANIC ON THE STREETS OF POETRY
When people ask me how (or why) I became a poet, I always blame music. At 14, I was skinny, […]
Essays, Music Poetry, Online Originals, Personal Essays
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Essays, Greatest Gen
ED GALING: A POET OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
(1917 – 2013) I’ve written more than a few poems for my friend Ed Galing, after getting the many letters
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The Double Image
“I, who was never quite sure/ about being a girl, needed another/ life, another image to remind me.” —Anne
Essays, Southern Poets, Tributes
Beyond Geography: Why I’m a Southern Poet
Not to be glib, but I have to at least acknowledge the obvious: I’m a Southern poet because I was
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The Deep Pulse of Idiom: Noodles, Blue Teeth, Flesh-Eaters, Gustave Flaubert, and Kurosawa’s Dream by Art Beck
THE IMPERTINENT DUET: TRANSLATING POETRY WITH ART BECK #4: THE DEEP PULSE OF IDIOM: NOODLES, BLUE TEETH, FLESH-EATERS, GUSTAVE FLAUBERT,
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“Being Difficult” by Norman Ball
Norman Ball BEING DIFFICULT With all due respect to those preceding me on this poetry discussion thread, I see great