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marilyn-kallet's picture
Dec.18.2012
In 2009, I wrote to some of my friends who are famous poets, and asked about blurbs for Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, a collection of more than 30 years of poetry (Black Widow Press.)  A few writers said, "I don't do blurbs.  It's my policy."  I asked Yusef Komunyakaa for a...
sarah-stone's picture
May.25.2012
The process of exploring a set of ideas about literary works is a treasure hunt for something that doesn’t exist until you find it. In that way, it’s just like writing fiction or poetry. Because I just reread Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun,  and because so far it’s been a...