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Jumping The Candlestick: Michigander Monday: Andrea Scarpino
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The blog of author Deborah Diesen. Monday, May 4, 2015. Michigander Monday: Andrea Scarpino. I'm very pleased to welcome Andrea Scarpino. Andrea, please tell us a little about yourself. Well, I was just named the 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula! And, of course, we want to know all about your books. I have one full-length poetry collection called Once, Then. That was published by Red Hen Press in 2014, and one chapbook called The Grove Behind. Other books or projects on the horizon? Sault S...
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Jumping The Candlestick: May 2015
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The blog of author Deborah Diesen. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Michigan Authors on Tour. Getting underway this month and continuing into the fall is a Michigan/U.P. author tour that will feature a whole bunch of Michigan's wonderful writers (including many who are in the new book Here: Women Writing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula). I wanted to pass on word about these Michigan writers and their events, the first of which is tomorrow. I'll post updates as I receive them. Ron Riekki, editor of Here. Time TBAR...
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Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories: March 2014
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Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories. Friday, 7 March 2014. Sudden Prose Reprints: Andrea Scarpino's "With Lines from Nâzım Hikmet". With Lines from Nâzım Hikmet. The poplar with its silver leaves as if a welcome light: come here, follow me. You did as you were told, took a flower from his casket's face. How long, this Earth? A star among stars / and one of the smallest. How long this silver light? Hikmet said. Will roll along / in pitch-black space. Red Hen Press, 2014). The Prose Poem: An...
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Planet of the Blind
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Planet of the Blind. It's not as dark as you think. May 02, 2014. Kind Of. Its Open Season on the Disabled. Every day I read something about disability that frightens me out of my wits. I generally have strong wits so this is a serious declaration on my part. There’s the story of Sean Vidal. A North Carolina teen with schizophrenia who was shot to death by police. Or the death of Robert Saylor. Then there’s the story of two Maryland teen girls. Or the story of Kelly Thomas. Are critically important. ...