"was ink, each gesture, a phrase"
Blake, Adonis, Gelman, Richardson, Barnett
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"and tell what it is like to be vivid with ants"
Lim, Sappho, Valentine, Coleman, Kaufman
Interview: Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck is the author of three hybrid novels and five books of poems including The Willow Grove which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
"Dark shell, through woods hiding out"
Howes, Gunn, Longley, Mead, Buson
"of rose and snow"
Harrison, Issa, Kumin, Yang Li, Mlinko
"Green corridor of time and empty seas"
Goodman, Mezey, Gorga, Herbert, Garrigue, Williams
Craft: Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill (1957-95) was a poet from Washington, DC.
"Of a golden hurt"
Shurin, Amichai, Brooks, Drummond, Gilbert
"against these work-mastered days"
Villa, Bidart, Hughes, Ryan, Marlis
"Something shining outside the black line"
Dickinson, Gregg, Fraser, Zapruder, Muldoon