Sublime

A poet once told me that he was reading a draft of a new poem aloud to himself when a thief broke into his Manhattan loft. Instantly surmising that he had entered the dwelling of a madman, the thief turned and ran without taking anything, and without harming the poet. So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but s

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

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Jim Deatherage,