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Monday Text: Clare Shaw’s “Poem About Dee Dee”
Every Monday, I will update my website with a story, poem, or excerpt that sticks to my ribs. Clare Shaw’s “Poem about Dee Dee” is the first entry in the series. Shaw is an English poet. “Poem About...
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Monday Text: Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas”
Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas” is this week’s Monday Text. Richard is the author of two story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, a novel, Fishboy, and a memoir,...
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Monday Text: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha
Every line in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha is a polished gem. Asali Solomon agrees. Whenever I need to lube my style-gears, I open my dogeared and annotated-to-death copy of Maud Martha to a random...
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Monday Text: Wallace Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
This week’s Monday Text is Wallace Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” one of my favorite poems. I love the interplay between pleasure and grief, luxuriousness and impoverishment, and the ultimate...
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Monday Text: Melinda Moustakis’s “Trigger”
Melinda Moustakis’s short short, “Trigger,” originally appeared as “MooseBlind” in Kenyon Review Online and subsequently as “Trigger” in her Flannery O’Connor award winning short story collection, Bear...
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Monday Text: Ron Rash’s “Night Hawks”
Ron Rash is a masterful short story writer–one of my favorites. Many people think of his novels first, but his short story collections are top notch and my favorite books of his. Burning Bright and,...
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Monday Text: Lewis Nordan’s “Owls”
“Owls” is the final chapter in Lewis Nordan’s novel, or novel-in-stories, Music of the Swamp. Sugar Mecklin is riding with his drunken father in the middle-of-the-night: Once when I was a small boy of...
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