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Clouds, Potatoes, Timothy Donnelly [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted yesterday at The Best American Poetry
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Bodies, baby. About a poem by Tom Healy [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Well when it remembers to rain it certainly remembers how to do it! It’s been storming off and on here in the spring of early-twenty first century Brooklyn and just now the birds are whistling hosannas to the... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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Cicadas and a Poem by Jennifer L. Knox [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Blue skies, pink cherry trees, yellow and red tulips, new-green leaves. As your correspondent from Brooklyn I report that all this color is exploding on the usual grey of asphalt and slate, dark blush of brick and brick-shade... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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Spring Notes and a Poem by Mark Bibbins [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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With a Poem by Cate Marvin (and a few words about Boston) I start a new phase of The Lion and the Honeycomb [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, I’ve been away so long! Been tending a few other fireplaces, to wit, I’ve got two books coming out in the fall; also changes in husband’s work has given me more time alone with my kids, now seven... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at The Best American Poetry
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September Day [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Sep 11, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Good news; Exit from the Monkey House [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Mar 2, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Goodbye WS; Hello to you in this dark evening season [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Feb 18, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Spring of February First [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Feb 1, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Ideal Idyll of an Idle Idol in the Ides of Winter [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Last week I wrote to you. The post started, “I don’t know how I’m going to get the gumption or gusto to write this post.” Then cursor blink. I blinked back. Today I wrote this post, this paragraph... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Christopher Hitchens RIP [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I've told you guys before about how Christopher Hitchens borrowed a mite too liberally from my book Doubt: A History, though he cited a lot he definitely did not give credit when it was most painfully due. (I... Continue reading
Posted Dec 16, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks Stacey -- means the world to me. And your additional notions now seem too important to leave out of the central discussion. Love the image of the dance recital being wonderful but alas forgettable until one or two moments when the dancers leap out of the ordinary and do something so lovely it imbeds itself in our mind's eye for an extraordinarily long time, as if they leapt right into our heads. As for feasts, my memory is already paring things down to the pecan pie with home-made whipped cream. xoxox Thanks again for writing. xoxo jmh
Commented Nov 29, 2011 on Part II on Bliss and the Mind's Eye [more for those who like this sort of thing, by Jennifer Michael Hecht] at The Best American Poetry
Part II on Bliss and the Mind's Eye [more for those who like this sort of thing, by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, Okay I thought I was done but I need to do a little more. Essay Part One. Allow me to put two more bits of notion into our meditation on the rule of bliss and its opposite, the swing-and-the-miss (and solitude, and its opposing number too) (which for me, right now, is you). No...
Part II on Bliss and the Mind's Eye [more for those who like this sort of thing, by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, Okay I thought I was done but I need to do a little more. Essay Part One. Allow me to put two more bits of notion into our meditation on the rule of bliss and its opposite, the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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How about Excess? I love that one terribly.
Commented Nov 27, 2011 on On Bliss and the Mind's Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht] at The Best American Poetry
On Bliss and the Mind's Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, I come to speak of daffodils not to bury bulbs of them. Here as we enter the entry to winter I thought I'd hinder the mundane with a bit of verse rapture about how hard it is to do without and how often we already have what we can't quite remember. Let's start again. For many o...
Has anyone claimed "Finish These Sentences?"
Commented Nov 26, 2011 on On Bliss and the Mind's Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht] at The Best American Poetry
On Bliss and the Mind's Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, I come to speak of daffodils not to bury bulbs of them. Here as we enter the entry to winter I thought I'd hinder the mundane with a bit of verse rapture about how hard it is to do without and how often we already have what we can't quite remember. Let's start again. For many o...
On Bliss and the Mind's Eye [an autumnal bramble by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, I come to speak of daffodils not to bury bulbs of them. Here as we enter the entry to winter I thought I'd hinder the mundane with a bit of verse rapture about how hard it is to... Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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A man so stout that he is eponymous and also famed for writing a Falstaffian detective can not be trusted when he speaks of the thin. Voltaire topples Rex, loi over roi. xoxjmh
Commented Nov 6, 2011 on Was Voltaire great? Nero Wolfe weighs in . . . at The Best American Poetry
Was Voltaire great? Nero Wolfe weighs in . . .
At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big questions was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop. ...
An Able E, An A Belly, Hannibal Lee, A Napoli [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Oct 27, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Book Review Post - Deborah Landau's The Last Usable Hour [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Oct 19, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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ee [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Does everyone know this ee cummings poem? It will rock yer glockenspiel, so read it. XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or his wellbelovéd colonel(trig westpointer most succinctly... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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One poor corr. plus two, two, hard two find, equals seven [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Sep 16, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Spin; or Investigation of a Curious Cherry Tree [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Sep 16, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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thanks ladies! and good one dako.
Commented Aug 27, 2011 on Took this picture, wrote this poem, thought of you, waiting for a storm [by Jennifer Michael Hecht] at The Best American Poetry
Took this picture, wrote this poem, thought of you, waiting for a storm [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
The Spider Spider, spider, spinning tight against the darkness of the night, what inspired geometry is wonder at your web from me? On what different leads or lies could my sympathies arise if, instead of these aspire, I had but gone out there entire? In the purpose of...
Took this picture, wrote this poem, thought of you, waiting for a storm [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Posted Aug 27, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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how delightful. olds knows a lot about a duck back. or rather loon in a goose pond.
thanks for sharing.
Commented Aug 18, 2011 on But where are the postcards of summer? at The Best American Poetry
But where are the postcards of summer?
In June, the Academy of American Poets mailed out blank postcards to poets asking them to fill out the space -- in any manner they wished -- at some time during the summer. The results of this enjoyable experiment are in -- some of them at any rate -- and can be viewed here. The postcard is no...
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