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This Incongruous Corner - “… each of us, unaware, is painting this world …” This is from ‘The Pen in the First Person: For the Drawings of Saul Steinberg’ found in The Uses of Liter...8 hours ago
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean - A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they u...8 hours ago
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The Easy Life on Cruise Control - Life is so damn easy for me. I don’t have to plan for the future because Evangelical preachers say Armageddon is coming. Until then, conservative politici...1 day ago
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A Lighthouse for Dark Times - This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and m...2 days ago
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Barbara Sabol and Erica Reid named 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year - The Ohio Poetry Day Association has selected *Barbara Sabol* and *Erica Reid* as our 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year. Congratulations to these two amazing wr...3 weeks ago
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Stay away from the pool - My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the commun...1 year ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...1 year ago
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Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very large new section and a long memoir. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/While-Undertaker-Sleeps-Peter-Johnson/dp/1952335590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=342C90A7P3DZE&keywords=While+the+Undertaker+Sleeps&qid=1685616911&sprefix=while+the+undertaker+sleeps%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1 - The post Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very la...1 year ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...3 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...3 years ago
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Jason Tandon - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the Hec...4 years ago
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Announcing the 7th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards Winners - Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelm...4 years ago
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How to Be a Tree out now - it’s here! https://zaphos.itch.io/how-to-be-a-tree Advertisements5 years ago
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the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory - . [image: Refugee, Tzasac, Guatemala, 83 | by Marcelo Montecino] *Refugee, Tsazac, Guatemala, 83*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 6 September 2014 [image: R...6 years ago
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Feeding therapy FINALLY!! - There is so much to catch up on and yet so little. I have noticed that the last year has felt like an inward journey and so telling a story hasn’t fe...6 years ago
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Let Yourself Be Awesome: On Overcoming Disappointment - On Saturday, I completed my first 12-mile run since 2005, and I aced it. My overall pace was 8:02 per mile, but the final two miles were in 7:44 and 7:49--...7 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...7 years ago
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One year gone ... - *Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh* Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...7 years ago
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I'm still here - Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away f...8 years ago
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2015 Mini Gift Guide - A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think would be great ...8 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...10 years ago
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"When I was in college" (Late Jurassic Period) there SOOO many famous person stories concerning Auden (who had taught there for a bit) floating about, and SOOO many players of Gossip Poker were swapping them back and forth...
But not a one was worth the Three of Clubs.
The best one: he would come to faculty parties (always exquisitely boring of course) with his bedroom slippers in his pocket, and at ten p.m. precisely, put them on (a bit like Cinderella this part, though unfortunately they were not made of glass), and "slip away into the night..."
As the night was always covered in two feet of snow, this probably took some doing.
All my other Auden The Old Master Famous Person Stories are much more lurid than that, even a Five of Diamonds in there somewhere I think, but none involved falling off a horse.
I would LOVE to hear all these stories.
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