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"flaming smooth aftertaste, what do you say?"
Meltzer, Matthews, Young, Baraka, Zimmer
12 hrs ago
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Sean Singer
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Paging: How the Plains Indians Got Horses
In 1973 following his first book, In the Outer Dark (LSU Press, 1970), Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) published a fascinating chapbook, How the Plains…
Dec 20
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Sean Singer
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"a ship that sails inside a spark"
Bentley, Eigner, Glück, Bonnefoy, Cavafy, Dove, Holan
Dec 19
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Sean Singer
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"Everything is in that."
Bogan, Skeets, Dickey, Lima, Soto, Kelly, Voigt
Dec 17
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Sean Singer
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"when the quiet comes except that so little sound"
Dickinson, Dugan, Bronk, Gregg, Nicholson
Dec 15
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Sean Singer
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Writing Problems: Boredom
Poets should embrace boredom.
Dec 13
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Sean Singer
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"like smoke in pouring rain"
Swenson, Wright, Smith, Willis, Bashō
Dec 12
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Sean Singer
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"the way clouds look punchable"
Bronk, Wright, Hooper, Clare, Trakl
Dec 10
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Sean Singer
13
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"O harp and altar, of the fury fused"
Crane, Ridge, Nurkse, Jones, Mayakovsky
Dec 8
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Sean Singer
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Writing Problems: Inspiration
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote most of The Duino Elegies, and The Sonnets to Orpheus, in less than one month.
Dec 6
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Sean Singer
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"let that be my name"
Machado, Lee, Bashō, Šalamun, Bentley
Dec 5
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Sean Singer
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"How can no one notice it"
Saroyan, Mistral, Gustafsson, Dickinson, Hopler
Dec 3
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Sean Singer
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