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Month: November 2014

Poetry on Planes, part 3 of 3

Perhaps you have been wondering if part 3 of this series would ever arrive.  It would have posted a couple of weeks ago,  but I went to Costa Rica on business.   Yes, while much of the U.S. was enduring its first…

Poetry on Planes, Part 2 of 3

Sometimes I’m thinking about poetry itself, not reading a specific poem.  On my last trip I found myself arguing against what I remember as a definition of  poetry as “strong emotion recollected in tranquility.”  Of course this argument was all…