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    The Spice of Life: Metric Variation in Formal Verse
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 25
    • 11 min

    The Spice of Life: Metric Variation in Formal Verse

    In 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for remaining Catholic and replaced with the...
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    Mediterranean Fortunes & Other Poetry
    By Kevin Blankinship
    • Jan 25
    • 2 min

    Mediterranean Fortunes & Other Poetry

    Mediterranean Fortunes A cold, dry Mistral gallops down the Rhone, reminding of what Dumas wrote: a count, falsely accused, rotting...
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    Ancient Dreams
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jan 19
    • 1 min

    Ancient Dreams

    I saw a young bard, A prince sitting on An ancient divan, Plucking the strings Of his Dorian lyre. His dainty fingers Strummed the gentle...
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    Unfit Gifts by Rabindranath Tagore
    Translation
    • Jan 14
    • 1 min

    Unfit Gifts by Rabindranath Tagore

    At sunrise, I cast my nets into the sea, dredging up the strangest and most beautiful objects from the depths ... some radiant like...
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    The Gate & Other Poems
    By John Steele
    • Jan 9
    • 2 min

    The Gate & Other Poems

    The Gate It’s not so hard to turn into a gate. To do so, just assume this shape: from kneeling, stretch one leg out to the side, place...
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    On the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus Bosch
    By Karel Vereycken
    • Jan 2
    • 20 min

    On the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus Bosch

    The following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...
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    The New Year
    By Adam Sedia
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    The New Year

    The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...
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    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach

    Like ghosts, the buildings Watch the changing earth and sky— Nothing is empty. Though in dark shadow, Gnarled and bent, it seems to rise...
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    Nativity
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Nativity

    Forget your Christmas cards and little crèche the cutesy donkey, sheep and shepherd boys. Put away the twinkle lights and all that trash;...
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