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Sandy McIntosh
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Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.

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There's a strong interplay between prose and poetry, with many works seamlessly merging their unique qualities and defying easy categorization.

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December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The "what if?" line of questioning allows poets to create metaphors and personification, transforming ordinary subjects into something extraordinary and emotionally resonant.

By asking "what if?", they invite readers to look at the familiar with fresh eyes.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“All this saluting, it's really a joke,” my friend Ovideo Fernando Gustavo Midence Peverel whispered to me.

Excerpt from Oviedo, Escape From the Fat Farm

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December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The "listening ear" of poetry with Anne Caston

Anne Caston speaks with poet and creative writing professor Michael Collier

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December 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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“His confusion begins with his bemused revelation that he has (maybe) two mothers, and continues through various other doublings.”

-Laurel Blossom, American Book Review

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December 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Poetry inspires creativity and encourages us to think outside the box.

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December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Two Bookstores and Two Capote Intrusions

“When I was eleven, I was yanked out of my progressive grammar school and sent into exile up the Hudson River to a military school.”

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December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“Whether to call them prose-poems with a strong plot or short stories is unimportant: McIntosh is a consummate story-teller with a gift for the rhythms of poetry and prose and le mot juste."

–Tom Fink

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December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Attending a poetry reading offers a variety of benefits for the listener, ranging from deeper appreciation of the art form to personal and communal well-being.

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December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“At times verging on the surreal and at other times fastened to clear, direct speech and plain imagery, his work elegantly distills the wonder and absurdity.”

-Tom Fink

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December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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David Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the American Poetry Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal, and as poetry editor of The Nation.

- Wikipedia

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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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JUST PUBLISHED!

Quest: A Writer's Journey

Twenty-six Essays and Interviews from Outstanding Writers of Diverse Backgrounds Who Recall How They Started.

Join Danusha Laméris for her Introduction.

www.amazon.com/Quest-Writer...

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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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“Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco, Sandy McIntosh's latest volume, bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. McIntosh's new poems are audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowning-around oddballs.”

-Denise Duhamel

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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Arthur Sze: Revealing and Reveling in Complexity

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December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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"Don’t even get me started on what McIntosh says about Robert Bly and Carlos Castenada . . "

-Jean Taylor, Amazon review

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December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime

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December 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“Poetry … is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”

-Salvatore Quasimodo

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November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The world around us is constantly whispering stories, and the poet is attuned to hear them.

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November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Man Who Knew Trees

Stanley Plumly’s Collected Poems shows him to be the contemporary heir to John Keats.

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November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Thankful, grateful, and blessed.

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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The After-Death History of My Mother

"Amazing in every way-form, content, impulse and dream!"

-Denise Duhamel

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November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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"Gleaning weird, candid, eccentric moments from his encounters with the famous and infamous. Ever want to hear a literary lecture from a Norwegian bartender? Watch Truman Capote have a hissy fit? Get to know what Donald Trump was like in military school?"

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November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Poem of the Week/ Peter McDonald: Loneliness

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November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Arthur Sze: Showing us how to live fully through poetry

Poet Arthur Sze — the city of Santa Fe’s first poet laureate — has been elevated to poet laureate of the United States of America.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM