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Ur Poems: Sarah V. Schweig

by Sarah V. Schweig February 25, 2011 Memoir

This entry is part of a series, Ur Poems» The first poem I ever loved was The Raven. Specifically, one line from the poem haunted me when I was young, and still does: “The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.” Writers today might say that the line isn’t a very good one, now [...]

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Ur Poems: Brian Chappell

by Brian Chappell February 11, 2011 Fiction

It was the novel, specifically The Brothers Karamazov, that once and for all set me on the path toward dedicating my life to literature. Only recently has poetry come to occupy a similarly sacred space as the novel in my outlook. This delay is not due to any prejudice on my part, but more to [...]

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Ur Poems: Emily Vogel

by Emily Vogel February 4, 2011 Header

What inspires us to write poetry? I would think that the commonly accepted assumption about poets is that if one is a poet, he or she has always been a poet. The obvious question which should follow this then is “Can someone be a poet without having any knowledge of poetry?” “Are we born poets?” [...]

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