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"Eating the same stone"
Kees, Clifton, Niedecker, Merwin, Issa
 • Sean Singer
"gold dots of pollen flecking a sodden carpet"
Alomar, Pratt, Brecht, Gustafsson, Wagoner
 • Sean Singer
"once this world was water"
Murray, Stock, Howe, Bronk, Meyers
 • Sean Singer
Craft: Lew Welch
Lew Welch (1926-1971?) was a poet of the Beat Generation / San Francisco Renaissance and a close friend of Gary Snyder (b.
 • Sean Singer
"Tell old woes to leave off here"
Dumas, di Prima, Stafford, Kasischke, Harél, Hamilton
 • Sean Singer
"skin of the surface the center retains its fluidity"
Wright, Wilner, Eilbert, Burkhard, Issa
 • Sean Singer
"flaming smooth aftertaste, what do you say?"
Meltzer, Matthews, Young, Baraka, Zimmer
 • Sean Singer
Paging: How the Plains Indians Got Horses
In 1973 following his first book, In the Outer Dark (LSU Press, 1970), Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) published a fascinating chapbook, How the Plains…
 • Sean Singer
"a ship that sails inside a spark"
Bentley, Eigner, Glück, Bonnefoy, Cavafy, Dove, Holan
 • Sean Singer
"Everything is in that."
Bogan, Skeets, Dickey, Lima, Soto, Kelly, Voigt
 • Sean Singer
"when the quiet comes except that so little sound"
Dickinson, Dugan, Bronk, Gregg, Nicholson
 • Sean Singer
Writing Problems: Boredom
Poets should embrace boredom.
 • Sean Singer
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