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Michael Simms
Oct 5, 20232 min read
Rhythm Benders | The Musicality of American Poetry
A poem is rooted in the rhythms of pulse, breath and movement.
Why some patterns of sounds are more pleasing than others is a mystery, yet
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Michael Simms
Jul 9, 20232 min read
Strangers at the Door | Robert Gibb, Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Jose Padua
I’ve always loved poetry that has a clear voice, a strong reliance on craft, and a sense that a person is speaking about ideas or incidents
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Michael Simms
May 5, 202311 min read
Orpheus in Hollywood
Should literary authors take genre fiction more seriously? Michael Chabon thinks so.
My friend RJ, a wonderful poet and an extraordinarily
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Michael Simms
Mar 14, 20218 min read
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, 20205 min read
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 24, 20204 min read
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, 20206 min read
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 24, 20196 min read
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, 20185 min read
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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