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In a Single Breath

January 12, 2012

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Enough of cake and cookies, out with the stale macaroons, the spent candles, the oddments of wrapping paper and ribbon behind the couch, under the couch, between the sofa cushions. Days lengthen, at first almost imperceptibly, and although there is so much winter yet to come, the soul begins its slow thaw, urging us in […]

On Poetic Gesture and Emotional Commitment

December 20, 2011

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Here we are as poets, in search of primordial forms that pull our imagination beyond the strict confines of the world as we’ve grown used to seeing it, picturing it, describing it – figures of the bird, the fish, or some other unknown prehistoric creatures. It doesn’t matter, really, whether that vision is all elegance […]

Jeffrey Levine is an award-winning poet and the Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press. He is currently offering seminars and workshops in poetry and publishing, as well as in-depth manuscript reviews.

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