Well, damn, it’s a relief to be a slut

Marilyn Hacker, from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons. Sonnets can be damn fun, oh yes they can. Well, damn, it’s a relief to be a slut after such lengths of “Man delights not me, nor woman neither,” that I honestly wondered if I’d outgrown it. Chocolate or wine, a cashmere scarf, a [...]

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Check out my reading list

I just put up a page with my reading list for my first semester in the Drew MFA program. No wonder my eyes hurt. But wow, I have learned so much, and found some amazing new poets. Semester One Reading List

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On not taking scholarship too seriously….

from The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter “In the 1930s, an Orientalist, Paul Kraus, set out to show that the entire Hebrew Bible, once properly accented, could be demonstrated to have been written in verse. When he discovered two-thirds of the way through his analysis that the texts no longer bore out his [...]

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