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Tag Archives: Poetry
Bookshelf: The State of the Disunion
Michael R. Collings is a gifted critic, academic, editor, novelist, and poet. In 2016, he’s really doubled down on poetry, producing multiple volumes of sonets (his word) on various subjects. His most recent collection bears a title suggesting the poems are … Continue reading
Poisoned Spines Bursting from the Apricot Tree
At Gangrene Creative Symposium, I FINALLY WON AT CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE!!! Here’s what I did in the Art Round. Heh, heh.
This Is Not the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
My friend Brian challenged me, but in my heart it feels too late to take the ALS Challenge. So we have contributed to the charities to which we regularly contribute, and instead of dousing myself with ice, I offer you … Continue reading
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Tagged ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Good Friday 1613, John Donne, Poetry
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The Methode of a Poet Historical
“For the Methode of a Poet Historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Spenser, Historical Fiction, King Arthur, Poetry, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Faerie Queene
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