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I just saw Brokeback Mountain. I feel like I’ve been tipped off balance.
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I graduated from my MFA program a year ago today. In the past year I have:> Slashed-and-burned the thesis manuscript> Written a new manuscript, saving just two poems from the thesis> Begun to publish the new manuscript’s poems here and there, begun submitting it to contests> Started a second new manuscript still in stages of…
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A list of great albums I got acquainted with this year: Fiona AppleExtraordinary MachineSounds like: Super-robot-piano-blues-funk-girl-with-introspectionBest tracks: “Extraordinary Machine,” “Better Version of Me,” “Tympani (the Sick in the Head song),” “Please, Please, Please”Representative lyric: “I am likely to miss the main event / If I stop to cry and complain again / So I will…
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It’s my favorite time of the year! My new issue of Bloom landed in my mailbox earlier this week. Oh, so delicious—first and foremost, Bloom is notable for its diverse and high-quality selection of art in each issue. This issue, their third, is no exception—readers are confronted by an oil panting (called “Small Fight”) of…
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That’s when, in an attempt to save each other,My beautiful lover and I collided, and in thatEmbrace, received the fatal arrow simultaneouslyThrough our hearts.
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I like when musicians put out an album of b-sides, especially when they clump them together from a single album. Tori Amos once commented on a song she wrote called “Cooling” that didn’t make it onto (I think) From the Choirgirl Hotel, “It just didn’t fit, but I still love her.” It ended up on…
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