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Anti- #55

Mark Yakich *

Consciousness

The poet Fernando Pessoa, who wrote under several aliases, each in an entirely different style, struggled with the tangled and abundant riches of his own self, by saying that each of us is "many". Needless to say, even when he was writing as one of his "heteronyms", as he called them, there was one single authorial self in charge of his original creations, the other authors being fictions. But

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Dream of the Unified Media: Writing and Revising Poems: A Romantic Comedy: *

The Madness of Motherhood, Erica Jong

Giving up your life for your child creates expectations that are likely to be thwarted as the child, inevitably, attempts to detach. Nor does such hyper-attentive parenting help children to become independent adults. Kids who never have to solve problems for themselves come to believe that they can't solve problems themselves. Sometimes they fall apart in college.

Anti- #54

Collaborative poems by Traci Brimhall and Brynn Saito*

Quick

Here's my facebook status from yesterday:home and still beaming from her wonderful experience at William Paterson University -- such insightful students, so curious, such great questions! Teaching the graduate workshop was amazing. I confess, I never really understood the vocation to teach, but I get it now.An accurate summary and it still applies today. __I came home to Simmons Buntins' new book

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Off to William Paterson University today -- I'll be reading, answering questions and leading a workshop. Poetry all day, that's what I'm talking about.By the way, Connecticut is still a blue state!Oh, and please remind my husband not to send peanut butter sandwiches to school tomorrow.Thanks. xo

Happy Halloween!

Watch This: "My Own Eyes"

Max Greenstreet's movie is a work of art about art. As well as the most amazing book trailer I have ever seen.

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction

MUNROI think so, yes, because as I said I was more hard-hearted then. The tenderness I feel now for my mother, I didn't feel for a long time. I don't know how I would feel if one of my daughters wrote about me. They're about at the age now where they should be coming out with a first novel that is all about childhood. It must be a dreadful experience to go through, becoming a character in your