Poet’s Notebook.
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Florida poet laureate Peter Meineke throws the kitchen sink at his latest poem
Poet’s Notebook.
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Meet Dennis Lehane and all of the writers of St. Petersburg’s Evening Reading series
They offer reading suggestions before the free, and very lit, January celebration.
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Poet’s Notebook: Dark anniversary
A poem marks a year since the massacre in Orlando.
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Poet’s Notebook: Tend the garden
Keeping an eye out for political pests.
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Poet’s Notebook: Nightmare scenario
It’s Trump’s dream, we’re just living in it.
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Poet’s Notebook: The music of memory
When is a piano more than a piano?
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Poet’s Notebook: Dylan’s truth, and Donne’s
The more things change, the more they change.
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Poet’s Notebook: We shall see
A eulogy for the administration that might have been.
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Poet’s Notebook: One for the ages
As our nation gets older, we continue to fetishize youth.
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Poet’s Notebook: Just say yes
A good guiding principle for poets — and for the rest of us, too.
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Poet’s Notebook: Revolution takes evolution
We can move forward, or let outmoded distortions of reality hold us back.
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Poet’s Notebook: Post master
In celebration of Arthur Fry, and his sticky yellow invention.
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Poet’s Notebook: The smart money
It’s education, not military spending, that can “make America great again.”
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Poet’s Notebook: Just great
Has the quality of greatness been diluted along with the word itself?
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Poet’s Notebook: A friend in cheeses
Memories and traditions can be built on the most unlikely things.
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Poet’s Notebook: When poetry isn’t enough
In Orlando’s wake, America needs action as well as words.
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Poet’s Notebook: The persistence of memory
Memorizing the greats, like Yeats, only improves a poet’s own art.
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Poet’s Notebook: The cost of war
Is our defense budget mostly necessary, or mostly wasted?
