Tag Archives: Celia Bland

What Makes a Poem Great? by Gretchen Primack

(Gretchen Primack’s chapbook is The Slow Creaking of Planets. She’ll teach a workshop at the Woodstock Writers Festival next April. Here’s her guest blog.) It’s all well and good that Emily Dickinson describes great poetry as the kind that makes … Continue reading

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In Praise of Jean Valentine’s Lucy: A Poem, by Celia Bland

(When I last saw Celia Bland, we were standing over a smoldering log in the fire pit behind the rustic pavilion at Poets’ Walk on a misty afternoon that had brought the first chill of autumn. On better days this … Continue reading

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