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The first on the scene
I have a duty to love and care for these children (namely, mine).
 • Brad Skow
Free Indirect Style: A Theory
Free Indirect Style is a technique for communicating a character’s thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
 • Brad Skow
The Devil Quoting Scripture
Recently I picked up a book of Great American Speeches and found, to my disappointment, that the speeches of the nation’s founders were followed by a…
 • Brad Skow
On thought-rhyme; or, parallelism as a poetic technique
Poems don’t need meter, in our free verse age.
 • Brad Skow
Everything Old is New Again: The Scarlet Letter
While in jail, the ghostbusters study the blueprints of the apartment building that, it will turn out, is a portal to a demon world, and they notice…
 • Brad Skow
“I was like a wounded animal...”
The worst pain I ever felt was a broken arm.
 • Brad Skow
Publication Day
Today American Independence in Verse takes its first halting steps into the wider world.
 • Brad Skow
Naive Reviews: John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Part 1
The moment of greatest ecstasy, in any of the Holy Sonnets I-IX, is in Sonnet VII:
 • Brad Skow
The Leftovers
The loyalists were American colonists who rejected independence.
 • Brad Skow
Young American
George Washington’s complete writings run past thirty-nine volumes, a bit much even for the father of a country.
 • Brad Skow
“Apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables...”
On Blank Verse
 • Brad Skow
American Independence in Verse, on paper
American Independence in Verse will be published on November 4th: I’m excited to share this happy news.
 • Brad Skow
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