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Beware the Angry Spinning Suns

Two poems by Jack Varnell

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A Lonely Loner (That’s Me… In My Place)

August 13, 2012 By S. Maxam Leave a Comment
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An excerpt from a book of poems I self-published back in 2009 – The Starving Artist.

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Filed Under: For Shawnel, Poetry Tagged With: Bipolar Disorder and anger, Bipolar Disorder and sadness, black men, Black men poetry, For Shawnel, male loneliness, mental health, mental illness, Shawn Maxam, The Starving Artist

5 Days Before His 14-Gun Salute at Arlington National Cemetery

May 28, 2012 By Lisa Hickey 2 Comments
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“I never knew who he killed all those years, but I knew who he tried to save…”

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Filed Under: Families, Poetry Tagged With: 14-gun salute, Colonel, grandfather, hospital, korean war, Lisa Hickey, memorial day, poem, remembrance, Vietnam War, World War I, World War II

Top Ten Reasons a Literary Snob Won’t Go Out with You

May 14, 2012 By Chris Wiewiora 3 Comments
Keeping Eustace alive for the next generation

Being a snob means being discerning and exclusive. Try not to take it too hard.

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Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry, Poetry, The Good Life Tagged With: blogging, dating, dating humor, Eustace V. Tilley, Jane Eyre, literature, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, the Atlantic, The Good Life, The New Yorker, Twitter, writers

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