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Anonymous, Plath, Simic, Adair, Bashō
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"in the press of the chamber"
Tuinman, Battin, Turnbull, Johnson, Bronk
Nov 26 • 
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"the rim where dreams crouch"
Brooks, Lerner, Bashō, Hull, Brigham, Padgett
Nov 24 • 
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The Sharpener Five Year Anniversary!
The Sharpener turned five years old yesterday!
Nov 22 • 
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"their and my impossibilities"
Brautigan, Rouzeau, Edson, O'Hara, Atkins
Nov 21 • 
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"Stimulus at energy sweep"
Hernandez, McDonough, Mann, Cornell, Dickinson
Nov 19 • 
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"Of an everywhere that the trees described"
Roethke, Hongo, Garrigue, Merwin, Olson
Nov 17 • 
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Craft: James Wright & Leslie Marmon Silko
Timothy Snyder, a scholar on authoritarianism and expert on Ukraine, advises that one way to combat tyranny is to maintain a private life, particularly…
Nov 15 • 
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"and the thunder answered"
Thomas, Wallschlaeger, Clifton, Sandig, Komunyakaa
Nov 14 • 
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"Space back into space restored"
Bly, Lauterbach, Roberson, Hull, Dickinson
Nov 12 • 
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"the Norway of the year"
Dickinson, Tranströmer, Niedecker, Osier, Radnóti
Nov 10 • 
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Nov 8 • 
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