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Reluctant Mistress by Anne Champion

Anne Champion’s dazzling first book of poetry, Reluctant Mistress, offers readers a thought-provoking revision of the love lyric, rendering this rich literary tradition relevant to a postmodern cultural landscape. While…

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Last Book I Loved

The Last Book I Loved: Small Porcelain Head

The first time I read Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain Head, I was screening manuscripts for a book prize on my honeymoon. Admittedly, it’s an odd way to celebrate nuptials,…

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Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You by Keely Hyslop

Pirates plunder. Pirates navigate by wit and savvy and force. They intercept us somewhere between where we were and where we think we are going to end up. They are…

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The Last Book I Loved: Dream Songs

My relationship with John Berryman’s Dream Songs, like the songs themselves, is murky, complicated, obscure in origin, and not easy to explain—not even to myself.

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Poetry

David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Genius of Adrienne Rich

I’m surprised by the amiable but lukewarm reception Ange Mlinko gives in The Nation to Adrienne Rich’s Later Poems: Selected and New. The 500+ retrospective was published late last year.…

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Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

Dark Elderberry Branch is a collaboration between two living poets and one who is dead but fully present. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa (former Soviet Union, in the Ukraine),…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #41: Utopian Communities

Bands, those funny little plans, that never go quite right, is a line from a really great song by Mercury Rev (“Holes,” from Deserter’s Songs), a song that rightly probes…

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Spit and Mud

What I remember most about church is all the sitting, standing, and kneeling, the stink of incense, the calm of the priest’s voice, the hard wooden pews, and not really…

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FUNNY WOMEN #93: Revised Pinterest FAQs

Pinterest is a million-page woman’s magazine written by everyone you’ve ever met and edited by no one.

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Letters Blog

THE NEXT LETTER IN THE MAIL: Elissa Bassist

The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from Elissa Bassist. Elissa Bassist is the editor of our Funny Women column. Her writing has appeared here on The…

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The Better Bombshell

This week marks the launch of the anthology The Better Bombshell, a collaboration of writers and artists exploring female role models.

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Nick Cave Monday #22: “Jubilee Street”

Goth girls everywhere will soon breathe a collective sigh of relief causing a variance in the Earth’s orbit. We have been waiting since 2008 for a new Bad Seeds record…

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