Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Ashes We All Become – Jim Harrison, Grand Poet and Prolific Writer, Dead at Seventy Eight

March 27, 2016 – 4:51 pm

Jim Harrison: author of twenty one works of fiction, two books of essays, fourteen poetry books (including Dead Man’s Float published this year), a cook book, a memoir and a […]

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The Cost of Refusal – A Poem by Robert Bly (and another by Rilke)

March 20, 2016 – 2:23 pm

What does refusal look like? Refusal to look at our shadow side, our rejected aspects, good and bad; and/or refusal to live on the borderlands of our lives, and past […]

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Ross Gay Wins the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

March 17, 2016 – 11:35 pm

The American poet Ross Gay ( 1974 – ) has won a lot of plaudits for his 2015 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude which won the 2016 Tufts Poetry Award, […]

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Sing Your Song! Shed That Skin! Commencement Addresses With a Similar Difference – Patrick Lane and Amber Tamblyn

March 15, 2016 – 10:35 am

When I think back on commencement addresses I have sat through I think of shiny, successful speakers urging the grads on to scale great heights and capture their dreams. After […]

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