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How a Poem Happens to Happen, by Brendan Lorber

You’re making a poem. But are you making the poem happen? A certain uncertainty surrounds us as we write,…

Dr. Hoff says: Daddy was a country doctor. In suspenders. Making house calls. He specialized in children, but was…

Follow most fiction-writing handbooks, and you’ll produce a well-crafted narrative that could have been produced just as easily in 1830.…

Sometimes a person writes something so completely different from anything you’re used to reading that you aren’t in a…

Cliché alert—not sure this can be expressed without them. A nightmare of colossal magnitude. OK, just the facts, ma’am. Those…

Dinosaur Today they found a baby dinosaur tail, amber-preserved, a forever mute memory. Myanmar’s a place I don’t know,…

MCPPFER Doc *Message to the Congress Presenting the President’s First Economic Report. Jan22 1962BX* The MCPPFER Doc is a fraudulent,…

[one_third] [/one_third] [one_third] I told them a story. I went to tell them everything, then I wasn’t sure, I hesitated,…

1987 In Retrospect—A Door to Itself—A Dream That Had Adhered— Nothing Marks the Places Exactly In retrospect I think…

Long piggish snouts and goggles appear in and out of focus as she readjusts the lens, the image remaining…