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>by Robert Nichols [Bob Nichols, Grace Paley’s husband, published his first book of poetry in 1962 through Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books. I just managed…

>The best thing in the current issue of The Paris Review is the interview with Barry Hannah. For an excerpt, click here. There are…

>One Day at a Time What goes around comes around.I made up that phrase this morning.Do you like it? Would you like to use…

>I attended a terrific panel discussion this evening, made all the more compelling by its location: Virginia Military Institute. The panel explored Poetry and…

>Yesterday, both the Northwestern Magazine (the alumni magazine of Northwestern Univeristy) and The New Yorker arrived in my mailbox. In the former was an…

>Snow at Folly Mills 

>I won’t dwell on the symbolism, but there’s a globe, bright blue and green, stuck in a backwater pool in my creek. I noticed…

>Just when I thought I was getting a handle on things, a new round of literary magazines began to arrive. I have shelves of…

>Garstang the Gund Gorilla? It isn’t a common name, to state the obvious. It is a surname, of English (but probably pre-Norman Scandinavian) origin….

>Someone (you know who you are) said I should post something about Hunter Thompson’s suicide. But I didn’t have anything to say about him,…