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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

"The Colonel Takes Command" published in Sundial Magazine

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  My story, inspired by the Mike Masco murder case in Little Falls a century ago, is now on line in Sundial Magazine , a new site for short ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

"The Witch Girl and The Wobbly" published by Running Wild Press

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 My novella set among the isolated people of the Taconic Hills a century ago has been published in Kindle and paperback editions:  Running W...
Friday, December 11, 2020

The generous poetry of Ellen Bass

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  (Cross published at Daily Kos ) Ellen Bass is appearing with Aracelis Girmay tonight at a Brooklyn Public Library virtual event  entitled...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

We must risk delight: The poetry of Jack Gilbert

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I thought I knew American writers of his generation well but I had never heard of Jack Gilbert until a friend recommended him to me...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Easter 2020: The yellow birds that fill the trees

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No River Where We Parted After Eugenio Montale’s “Dora Markus” There was no wooden bridge, no river where we parted: a st...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Ezra Pound: the Best and the Worst

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Lady Wang, found in Mogao Caves, Tang Dynasty Ezra Pound was a truly great poet - and he wasn't. Leaving the United States in the ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Getting the news from poetry: William Carlos Williams

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                                              Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams  in their early years                            ...