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One poem from What Shines and a newish essay
The essay was recently published in the excellent bioStories, edited by the excxellent Mark Leichliter. I recommend the publication…
Apr 17
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March 2024
One old poem and one new essay
Heterodox And which of you by being anxious can addThanks for reading Sydney’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…
Mar 30
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One Newish Flash Essay and a Formally Self-Forgiving Sonnet
Oko I smacked my foot against a table leg this morning and scolded myself: Watch where you’re going! A blood-bead stood below the nail, whose jaundiced…
Mar 16
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A Short Poem and an Essay
The poem is from my latest collection, What Shines, and the essay from Such Dancing as We Can, my latest book of personal essays Scarlet/Indigo
Mar 7
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February 2024
A Poem and an Essay
The poem (in 8-line stanzas, invisible here) is from my recent collection, What Shines; the essay is from my collection of same, published last month…
Feb 11
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January 2024
HiFi
A short poem from my recently published 16th collection, What Shines. It’s in tercets, but you won’t see that, alas…Or will you? HiFi, 1952 As yet there…
Jan 27
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HiFi
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The Cardinal, the Cops, and the Say-Hey Kid
This is one of the longer essays in my recently published collection (available on Kindle or in paper from amazon), Such Dancing As We can. Thanks for…
Jan 23
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December 2023
from "Now Look."
Prologue to and first chapter of my second novel.
Dec 31, 2023
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from "Now Look."
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One short short essay, one new poem, one from WHAT SHINES, my most recent collection
Still can’t get the poems’ formats right. Ah well… My son in law is due home for Chrtistmas. Tech whiz, he’ll help me… if I, 81 years old the day after…
Dec 12, 2023
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November 2023
One short essay, one poem from recent collection, one new poem, and a guest artist
What to Do with Rage The icy Sunday morning found me in bed, engrossed by a book of John Singer Sargent’s watercolors. The thought of lingering under…
Nov 17, 2023
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One short essay, one poem from recent collection, one new poem, and a guest artist
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Some newer poems and one from What Shines
Autumn Poem with Parakeet Her wings were so emblazoned by early sun that observers could easily have dreamed some prodigious creator had blessed their…
Nov 3, 2023
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Some newer poems and one from What Shines
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October 2023
Two New Poems
12-line stanzas, though I can’t reproduce the format. That’ll Be Enough Now Enough of that, old fool, he vows, scarcely for the very first time. Enough…
Oct 17, 2023
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Two New Poems
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