Poetry Friday: Cheryll Y. Greene
That’s Cheryll with 2 ll’s Greene with an e on the end.
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Poetry Friday: Rosanna Warren
How appropriate that Rosanna Warren is a deceptively hushed presence, gentle and soft-spoken, self-effacing though sure. On the page she is wide open to the violence and wreckage of relationships, time and love.
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Poetry Friday: Sometimes April Is the Cruellest Month (VIDEO)
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan's somber poems let us in on that other truth about the month that ends this week: sunshine can illuminate what's hardest in our lives.
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Echoes of April 2010: Kay Ryan Wins the Pulitzer
Our beloved Kay Ryan, the poet who best represents the confluences of humility with humor and capacity with the casual, was tapped by the Pulitzer Board for her volume of poetry “The Best of It.”
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Poetry Friday: Helen Losse (VIDEO)
The former teacher from Winston-Salem, N.C., dwells on nature and faith. Here, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "After He Fell."
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Poetry Friday: The Inundation of the Spring
Whatever April is looking like to you, we hope these the verses below help Dickinson "sweep the tenement away" where you are.
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Celebrating National Poetry Month The Easy Way (VIDEO)
By Laura Baudo Sillerman
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National Poetry Month is the perfect time to celebrate something tangible that the web offers everyone: poems of every stripe and stories about the people who write them.
Poetry Friday: Susan Marc Lawley
The voice of Susan Marc Lawley, Ph.D., speaks to what women know and carry within themselves and what the world would be better for understanding.
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Poetry Friday: Women with Honors
Unlike Hollywood, the literary world doesn't broadcast its awards season far and wide. This sometimes leads to delightful surprises — like all of March, so far. The honor roll, please.
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Poetry Friday: 13 Names for Wind
"I had read of a culture, I think it was the Eskimo, that had 20 different names for snow... and one that had 20 different names for wind," poet Linda Benninghoff writes.
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Poetry Friday: Extra Love Letters
We close this month of sexy, loving poems with an encore from each of the poets who have made up our valentine of Poetry Fridays.
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Poetry Friday: “Sea Choirs”
In Linda Benninghoff's interesting, variable work, we found a poem just perfect for this middle of winter.
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Poetry Friday: Gwendolyn Jensen, Part Two
We are beyond delighted to celebrate the season with Part Two of our conversation with Gwendolyn Jensen, followed by her poem entitled “Christmas.”
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Poetry Friday, Holiday Saturday Edition: Mourning Doves, New Love and Holding Your Breath
Too late for last week's Poetry Friday Gift List, we've just learned about a great last-minute Christmas gift for any literary friends, including yourself: Injuring Eternity , a new collection from WVFC stalwart Millicent Borges Accardi.
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Poetry Friday: Gwendolyn Jensen
We've just received a gift of the season in the opportunity to interview a poet as wise, as accomplished, as simultaneously new and mature, as Gwendolyn Jensen. And herewith it becomes a gift to you as well.
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