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Poetry Friday: Nicky Beer, 2012 Festival Poet

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Rebecca Gambale

All glass is an eye that breaks itself into blindness, a jagged swarm of relief… The Diminishing House is Nicky Beer’s first book, and this seems appropriate, as the poems are all about origins and the act of becoming. In … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday: Brian Barker, 2012 Festival Poet

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Michele Russo

Telephone lines fishtail and fizz, Dead letters ride up ——————out of the blue breath of mailboxes…. Somewhere a lone cello floats calmly Across a playground of my childhood. These lines are from Brian Barker’s “Flood,” a poem about the flood … Continue reading →

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