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George Witte
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James Applewhite, Fred Chappell, Robert Frost, Philip Larkin
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
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Does She Have a Name?
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2014
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The Apparitioners
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2005
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Deniability
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2009
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An Abundance of Caution
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2023
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The Secret Alphabet
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New poems in Revel 3
The beautiful new issue of Revel 3 is just out, with an array of poems, prose, and art. I'm proud to have two poems included in such company. Well worth subscribing to this award-winning journal: https://www.unboundedition.com/produc...
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"The story revealed in this book was not well known. The Zorg was a slave trader ship, practicing the triangular trade routes in the 18th century. It would sail from Liverpool, England loaded with trade goods to trade for slaves along the "Guinea" coa"
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It:
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“There's something to be said, and something else
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
“we learn
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
“No photograph records
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
“And when undone or desperate, alone,
beset by others' hungers and my own,
to speak inaudibly and still be heard.
From "Wish List”
― An Abundance of Caution
beset by others' hungers and my own,
to speak inaudibly and still be heard.
From "Wish List”
― An Abundance of Caution
“There's something to be said, and something else
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
to be kept quiet and cool:
the lake at dawn, before the fog burns off.
from "An Open Letter”
― The Apparitioners
“we learn
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
the word's embedded anagrams so rush
to pare a god's indifferent nails and rape
the body offered in all innocence
and gnaw the unripe hanging pear of love
From "Reap”
― An Abundance of Caution
“No photograph records
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
― Deniability
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