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Daily Poem: April 2
Dream in which you’re flying
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Daily Poem: April 1
In the office
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April Announcement
April is poetry month! That’s right, you sons of bitches, it’s a veritable cornucopia of mimesis, apostrophe, enjambment and scansion! Do you know the difference between synechdoche and metonomy? Well I do, dammit, and this month, you’re gonna hear about it! Instead of regular Tuesday posts, I’
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Tuesday 3.42: To My Shoes
After 350 miles, the foam in my Brooks Hyperion Tempo sneakers (blue, above) has become condensed to the point that I can feel dead spots and irregularities when my feet hit the ground. This weekend, I ran for the first time in my new pair of Brooks Hyperion Tempo sneakers
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Tuesday 3.41: More Power
When it was finally announced that Joe Biden won the presidential election on an unseasonably warm Saturday last November, my girlfriend and I rode our bikes to Prospect Park, where we met a couple of friends. We sat in a small field on the park’s east side, sipping from
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Tuesday 3.40: Get it?
A few years ago, I deleted all of my social media accounts. I wasn’t all that active of a user, and it’s never seemed important enough to articulate why I did it. The companies are evil, and it was something that mostly just made me hate myself. After
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Tuesday Recommended: Chuckles
The third installment in an occasional series of brief recommendations. After my grandfather died this past spring, my aunt sent me a small box that included “a few of his favorites,” as a note explained. Inside, she packed was a couple of bookmarks of impressionist paintings that he liked1, a
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Tuesday Recommended: Other Writing
The second installment in an occasional series of brief recommendations. I don’t have much in the way of new writing yet, so here are four things I read and liked that I’ll share instead: This essay by Kelsey McKinney about cherries, sadness, and finding things to look forward
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Tuesday Recommended: The Pencil
[To make up for missed weeks, please accept this first installment in what I intend to be an ongoing and occasional series of brief recommendations.] I’ve been a pen guy my whole adult life, and a particular pen guy at that. The Muji 0.38 gauge black gel roller
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Tuesday 3.39: Hip to be scared
I’ve been exhausted for the last couple of weeks. I had a pretty good schedule going for awhile: up at 6 am, do some kind of exercise, shower/coffee, work, etc., in bed by 10 pm. But for the past 14 days or so, that’s all gone to
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Tuesday 3.38: The How
I had a whole thing, coming out of the holidays, a lot of notes, but I figure I’ll put it off for a week or so and collect myself a bit, as I assume most everyone is doing. Sometimes when it comes up that I read and write poetry,
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Tuesday 3.37: See you on the holidays
Elle Magazine recently published an essay about journalist Christie Smythe’s romantic relationship with known medicine criminal Martin Shkreli. I read two or three paragraphs of the piece, which seemed perfectly well-written, before closing it and reading something about Fernando Rodney, who is 43 and currently pitching in the