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"Fish grease spits at darkness"
Leader, Cowen, Ras, Forché, Oliver
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Sean Singer
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"What seems to burn a trick of time"
Sorrentino, Hardy, Issa, Markham, Mead
Jan 14
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Sean Singer
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"There's water everywhere"
Komunyakaa, Ammons, Ai, Holub, Howe
Jan 12
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Sean Singer
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Interview: Jane Huffman
I am introducing a new feature of The Sharpener, a series of monthly interviews with contemporary poets.
Jan 10
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Sean Singer
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"Fugitive, in a grey garden"
Pritchard, Ponge, Battin, Coulette, Conroy, Ní Bheildiúin
Jan 9
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Sean Singer
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Pastan, Shumaker, Wright, Weismiller, Gustafsson
Jan 7
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Sean Singer
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"Enclosing half an emptiness"
Hoffman, Vallejo, Simic, Forché, Gustafsson
Jan 5
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Sean Singer
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Paging: Marianne Moore's Predilections
I think the most difficult thing for me [in my writing] is to be satisfactorily lucid, yet have enough implication in it to suit myself.—Marianne Moore
Jan 3
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Sean Singer
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"Eating the same stone"
Kees, Clifton, Niedecker, Merwin, Issa
Jan 2
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Sean Singer
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"gold dots of pollen flecking a sodden carpet"
Alomar, Pratt, Brecht, Gustafsson, Wagoner
Dec 31, 2025
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Sean Singer
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"once this world was water"
Murray, Stock, Howe, Bronk, Meyers
Dec 29, 2025
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Sean Singer
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Craft: Lew Welch
Lew Welch (1926-1971?) was a poet of the Beat Generation / San Francisco Renaissance and a close friend of Gary Snyder (b.
Dec 27, 2025
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Sean Singer
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