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Jack Wiler: Hoboken Poet & Exterminator

In the 1980s on Washington Street, Hoboken’s main boulevard, the exterminator’s shop had a stained glass portrait of a cockroach hung in the window, a beautiful artwork done in honey browns. That was Hoboken at the time, both gritty and … Continue reading

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January Poetry Blitz: George Drew

Ghost Calls In memory of Leo Connellan Ghost calls—that’s what Miss Susan Pellicani says they call them here. Ghost calls—when the telephone rings and you say hello and nothing. Not even heavy breathing. Nothing but the silence of the ocean … Continue reading

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Does Knowledge Blind Us to Nature?

The debate dates back to Plato if not the dawn of language itself. By learning to identify an object by name do we see it more clearly or do we lose the ability to see its particularity? Would the roadside … Continue reading

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From Jackass Hill to Rattlesnake Hill with George Drew

While enjoying George Drew’s new book, The View From Jackass Hill, I was impressed by the fact that so many of his poems addressed others, primarily poets but also his car mechanic as well. George writes about friendship, unlike many … Continue reading

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In Praise of “The View From Jackass Hill” by George Drew

Once upon a time poems told stories about people. Think of Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man” about a wandering old farmhand “worn out” and “asleep beside the stove” while a farm wife and her reluctant husband debate … Continue reading

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Michelangelo on the Hudson

George Drew pours himself into his enthusiasms. Retired a decade ago from teaching college English, he now devotes himself to writing, running, traveling, family life, and appreciating poetry. At readings, where we first met, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone … Continue reading

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