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Why Do We Fear Poetry? Two Poets Answer: Muriel Rukeyser and Brenda Hillman

August 8, 2015 – 5:06 pm

      Two Years Two years of my sister’s illness; the wind whips the river of her last spring. I have burned the beans again. Muriel Rukeyser (1913 – […]

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Words on Fire – So the Planet Won’t Die of the Human

August 2, 2015 – 2:29 pm

Musicians, poets and novelists will be situating their lyrics and plots in new contexts. — Barry Lord from Art & Energy: How Culture Changes, AAM Press, 2014     Sometimes […]

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Happy Surprise! Recovering Words’ Favorite Honoured at 2014 Griffin Poetry Awards

June 11, 2014 – 4:43 pm

  DAY The hens, startled, open their beaks and freeze in that style, immobile —I was going to say immoral— their mandibles and ruddy crests, only the arteries pulsing in […]

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