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Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language

Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language

I could not have articulated it this way back then, but I felt straitjacketed by much of the male poetic tradition in which I was being educated and in which I understood I would be expected to write
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To Write Is To Sit In Confrontation With Yourself

To Write Is To Sit In Confrontation With Yourself

Wrestling with yourself like that, if you’re honest about it, is to court what can be a very frightening vulnerability, because it means by definition having the audacity to lay claim to a readership’s attention...
Like Domestic Violence, Antisemitism Has Also Been A Thread Running Through My Life

Like Domestic Violence, Antisemitism Has Also Been A Thread Running Through My Life

“We’re building an oven in my basement,” the ringleader smiled. “When it’s finished, remember, we know where you live,”
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Four by Four #57

Four by Four #57

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On My Desk Now: I Still Miss The Friend I Wrote This Poem For

On My Desk Now: I Still Miss The Friend I Wrote This Poem For

More than anyone else in my life, and despite the fact that we came from very, very different backgrounds, Adrienne accepted me for who I was.
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