Bigfoot Love Triangle (Spring Mix)
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Clocks have March-ed ahead, and we've passed the Vernal equinox, so ...
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InTheNo 7: Journalist Alfred Lubrano
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The geographic span between Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and New York's ...
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InTheNo 6: Conductor Donald Nally
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Donald Nally left his job as a music professor to found an ...
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InTheNo 5: Illustrator Matt Phelan
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After learning that the optioned screenplay he had quit his job to write would never be made into a movie, Matt Phelan took the ...
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InTheNo 4B: Poet Teresa Leo, Part II
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InTheNo 4A: Poet Teresa Leo, Part I
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Award-winning poet Teresa Leo is no stranger to rejection, a common outcome when submitting for publication and grants. She is also familiar with success -- her poetry has appeared in over a dozen publications and received several notable awards. In this first of two parts, we discuss how Leo composes poems, how fellow writers and artists help refine and inform her work, and what characterizes poetic writing. ...
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Skullcrusher Pirate Hotdish
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The holiday season continues apace. To mark , the onset of , the first day of Xmas gift returns, a belated , ...
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InTheNo 3: Musician Jonathan Coulton
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Just how far do you have to go when you quit your day job and pursue ...
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InTheNo 2: Psychologist Barry Schwartz
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What if nobody ever turned you down, and every possible option was available to you? Psychology professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, explains how being asked to choose from an overabundance of options can actually lead to feelings of dissatisfaction and helplessness, rather than greater contentment. ...
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InTheNo 1: Author Tom Zoellner
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A broken engagement spurred journalist and author Tom Zoellner to ...
info_outlineAward-winning poet Teresa Leo is no stranger to rejection, a common outcome when submitting for publication and grants. She is also familiar with success -- her poetry has appeared in over a dozen publications and received several notable awards. In this first of two parts, we discuss how Leo composes poems, how fellow writers and artists help refine and inform her work, and what characterizes poetic writing.
During the interview, we touch on several people, places, and publications, including:
Teresa Leo: homepage, Pew Fellowship web page
Poet Stephen Dunn
Painter Irving Petlin
Poet Deirdre O'Connor (Before the Blue Hour)
Novelist Lisa Borders (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
Bucknell University
Pew Fellowship in the Arts
Painted Bride Quarterly
Poets & Writers magazine
Philadelphia Inquirer
Home Depot
If you've ever wondered how a poem finds it way to the printed page, drop some coins in the meter and listen in.
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