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“From Bread Loaf to Sugarloaf” by Jo Pitkin

(My thanks to Jo Pitkin for this guest blog. And let me recommend her wonderful chapbook, The Measure.) In 1977, summer jobs for college kids were scarce in my Hudson Valley hometown. In previous years, I had been an arts … Continue reading

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On Not Becoming a Chinese Poet

On an early October day, on the cusp of the autumn color invasion when the forest looks darkest green from a summer of soaking up sunlight, I helped lead a “Hike & Write” up to Giant Ledges as part of … Continue reading

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