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April 7, 2016April 11, 2016 - Uncategorized

Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!

Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…

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October 18, 2015February 3, 2019 - Books, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

On Names

I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. –from “Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa…

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August 29, 2011August 28, 2011 - Uncategorized

#AuthorFail 13: Debra Di Blasi

Welcome back, my friends, to lucky #13. My good friend and publisher, Debra Di Blasi, speaks best for herself. Go…

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June 6, 2011June 5, 2011 - Uncategorized

A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk

Ostensibly a history of the ways humanity has, across history, housed the mortal remains of its dearly, or otherwise, departed,…

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