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My latest collection has just been published by Marsh Hawk Press under the editorial oversight and all-around excellence of Sandy...
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Dec 5, 20201 min
Finally, Some Poetic Justice for Grey Space (July 2, 1970-December 4, 2016)in January 2021!!!
I have had little desire to place words on this site for months--a suspension that predates the pandemic but a prelude for many...
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Jan 2, 20201 min
Salud...Salutations...Future Fortunes!
On what is the first day of the new decade, I quote the last poem of Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) translated by Alissa Valles: FABRIC...
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Oct 22, 20193 min
Goodbye, Saint Nick...Please Never Leave Me or Us, You Delightful Devil!
Nick Tosches (1949-2019) Yesterday my f(r)iend Nick Tosches died. No, we were not close enough to be deeply woven and wound up friends,...
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Jun 13, 20193 min
Attention, NewArk Narrators! We Helped Build This Ark!
This past spring semester, I collaborated with my New Jersey Institute of Technology senior seminar students, Gallery Aferro in downtown...
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May 19, 20192 min
Braintree Minds Mind Gray Matter Too Political? Radicals & Topicals...
(The following words are dedicated to Elena Alexander whose ideas and feedback inform them immensely. Thank you again, EA!) Last Monday,...
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Apr 22, 20192 min
Easter Celebrates the Poet Pines!
A Shrine for Paul Pines (1941 - 2018) Easter is or should be an occasion for revelation and ritual, prayer and reflection, pageantry and...
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Apr 16, 20191 min
The Early Bird Gets the Word!
The Spring 2019 edition of the Marsh Hawk Review now arrives and flies with a poetic plumage of many fabulous forms. Check it out here: ...
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Mar 16, 20191 min
Come Ignite Spring with Constellations of Waking!
Another cause for seasonal joy... Poet Michael Heller's thrilling new book, Constellations of Waking (Dos Madres), has just been...
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Feb 13, 20193 min
Sketching Ecstasy, Elegy, and Selves...Just Like That.
Identity politics are all too often the product of conceptual drivel domains, poly-politricks offering in their activated forms a...
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Nov 6, 20182 min
"Post-mortem effects, presumably..."
When in the crowded company of neighborhood obsessives, bright-eyed neurotics, and blissed-out monomaniacs, I am ever hopeful that a few...
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Oct 1, 20182 min
Enchantment Granted: Aidan Grant's Photography
Deadline inspiration cannot be relied upon. Given the assignment-- whether a self-imposed endpoint for one's own scheduled work or else...
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Aug 24, 20181 min
91 Years Ago Tonight...
...Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a society largely prejudiced against immigrants, radicals,...
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Aug 12, 20183 min
Illuminations in Translation = August Inspirations!
The discrete categorization of artworks causes frustration when carried out to formulate--and defend-- a forceful, enforcing kind of...
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Aug 10, 20181 min
Today! Friday, Films, & Fevers
Today, Friday, holds the white Paper up too close to see Me here in a white-out in this tent of a place And why is it there has to be...
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Aug 1, 20183 min
Chains of Being and Non-Being
"Marian was at work as usual in the Reading-room. She did her best, during the hours spent here, to convert herself into the literary...
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Jul 2, 20181 min
Gospels & Gutters
"Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 29, 1851 "To seize...
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Jun 11, 20182 min
Roth Requiescat but Rest Not, Revelator!
Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018, my father's birthday, at age 85. His book, The Counterlife, is dedicated "To my father at eighty-five."...
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May 11, 20181 min
Hellerama! To Michael Heller!
It is May 11th and this date should be considered an international holiday in honor of American Poet Michael Heller. Born in 1937, he has...
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Apr 13, 20181 min
Verdant Vikings! Poets with Pitchers!
I am off by two weeks in recounting the anniversary below but so be it...early it is, I am, I am, iamb. Dateline: NOW! We are now...
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