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Sara Teasdale . . . There Will Come Soft Rains

The shape and formatting of Teasdale’s poetry tends to be classic and charmingly unsophisticated. But the subject matter is ever romantic and offers a woman’s perspective on life and love.

On being a writer: From poet to novelist

After poetry’s compressed, telegraphic form, I couldn’t let all the nouns and verbs just hang out in sentences.

LAURA DIDYK: It Takes All Kinds

All characters are works of fiction; any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.

LEONARD QUART: On writing a eulogy

I try to evoke my friends in a way that makes them come alive, always understanding by choice and by ultimate lack of knowledge -- that I have merely scratched the surface.

BOB GRAY: Kindred Spirits

He seemed about my age, and I appreciated, as he read, what I understood as resonances of both vigor and mortality.

SHORT STORY: The Reading

This is sixth story from Jonathan Baumbach’s forthcoming collection, “The Pavilion of Former Wives,” to be published by Danzig.

Writer’s Life: No time like the present  

Here you are at seventy, somehow enjoying the opportunity to make meaning out of your own life, an antidote to the mayhem all around you.

A Writer Recommends: A literary column

When you read “A Writer Recommends,” think of me as that friend who says, “You have to read this.” These will be books I love.
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