Michael Simms
The Trojan Women
Today on the Classic Cars website, I saw an ad for a fully restored 1965 GMC pickup with a hard-shell camper hood, and I thought of Henry
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Michael Simms
- Nov 28, 2020
- 5 min
Blue Notes
From a neighbor’s window, I hear Billy Joel’s carpe diem Only the Good Die Young in which he tries to convince a good Catholic girl
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Michael Simms
- Jul 25, 2020
- 4 min
Praise the Poet
A writer without a reader is an empty thing, a thumb without a finger to oppose it, a traveler without a companion. I was appalled by the...
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Michael Simms
- Jan 24, 2020
- 6 min
Re-reading Christina Rossetti’s ‘In an Artist’s Studio’
In an Artist’s Studio One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: We found her hidden just...
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Michael Simms
- Aug 25, 2019
- 6 min
Dogsbody to the Muse
My work in the poetry field the last 40 years has been largely behind the scenes — editing, publishing, promoting, organizing, raising money
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Michael Simms
- Feb 24, 2018
- 5 min
An Appreciation of the Poetry of Robert Gibb
Robert Gibb is a poet’s poet. By that phrase I mean that he’s widely admired among poets across the country, but virtually unknown to
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