Monthly Archives: June 2017

From a Discarded Post

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Adam Penna

“A poet’s first preoccupation has to be with love.  Where ordinary men and women–I don’t mean ordinary in any pejorative sense, but rather in its Latin sense–can afford to submit their lives to chance and do, mostly, fairly well as … Continue reading →

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This Is Just a Place

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Adam Penna

for Steve, in memoriam After you divorced, ten years passed before We saw each other and, By that time, ruin found me too I can’t begin to tell the story It doesn’t matter now.  Let it suffice That we were … Continue reading →

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Commonplaces & Other Miracles

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Adam Penna

Periodically, I revise the direction of this blog.  Given my point of view about revision, and what its aims and objects are, this is a good thing.  And given the magnitude of the changes I’ve experienced in my life these … Continue reading →

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Presales for Small Fires, Little Flames Coming to an End

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Adam Penna

June 16th marks Bloomsday AND the end of Presales for Small Fires, Little Flames.  Coincidence?  I think not… Please, if you’ve considered purchasing a copy of the book, now’s the time to follow through.  Click here, and on August 11th, when … Continue reading →

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