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Reading, according to Walt: "For Whitman, reading was to be 'an exercise, a gymnast’s struggle' helping us train for the imaginative demands of democratic life itself. excellent piece by my colleague Scott Reznick The Hedgehog Review hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

WWLG (What Would Larkin Give?) Stevie Smith poems at Christmas! PhilipLarkinSociety

The new Literary Matters (Literary Matters ) is here, and it is stacked--a poem and interview with Rita Dove, poems by Amit Majmudar, M.I. Devine, Shane McCrae, Jenna Le, Elijah Blumov, translation by Alicia E. Stallings. Congrats to editor John Matthew Steinhafel on a strong start. Link below.

"I see it as a challenge to make sure that the writing is honest and dangerous in all of the right ways." It was a pleasure converse with Pulitzer winner and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove for Literary Matters. (Literary Matters, wwnorton.com): literarymatters.org/17-2-the-ungua…

chubby checker

In Warhol's diary, a note about about the papal visit: “When the reporters asked him what he liked best about New York, [Paul VI] said ‘Tutti buoni’ (‘Everything is good’)--which was the Pop philosophy exactly.”

if pop is not repetition in all its absurd glory i don't want it

today's two days beyond the day-- he last--two two two-- rode away beyond the day

My review of Matthew Wickman's insightful, moving Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of an English Professor is now up at Front Porch Republic. Highly recommend! If you are interested in literature and religion...and, well, life...check it out. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/03/betwee…

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Thanks for the "Chubby Checker" shout out! As St Benedict said, Ora labora, twist & shout :) Steven Knepper New Verse Review

as every saint has sung, dead or alive, 'spin me right 'round, God, right 'round like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round' thanks to Literary Matters Literary Matters ed. John Matthew Steinhafel for the full Chubby Checker experience: literarymatters.org/17-2-chubby-ch…

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? i saw a driverless car wait 2 minutes for a seagull🦤

It's an honor to have an excerpt from my novel of the 1980s in Pushkin sonnets featured in a truly enlivening literary forum, the New Verse Review. If you like '80s pop tunes, Dungeons & Dragons, and/or formal verse, please check it out.