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Sep 15, 2021Liked by Becky Tuch

Great interview. I'm eager to read the Rainbow Review now. I enjoyed the "balls out" political talk (Oh gosh, is "balls out" even something people say?) but also the discussion indicating that it's problematic to reject poetry or cancel a poet solely due to an unfortunate political ideology.

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I write formal and informal, sonnets, villanelles, haikus, ballad, dialogue poems, narratives. I am also wo rking on a longish series called The Black Lives Matters Hybrid Haikus. Flowersong Press published and edited by Edward Vidaurre has just published a big anthology (300 pages plus) Good Cop/ Bad Cop. He took my iin-progress work of eighteen haikus that Ive been honing for the last two years. When is your next submission call?

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I just sent you a long and complimentary piece but my skitzy computer killed. We are on the same pages enjoying the craft of the ages for me by now it

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really interesting to hear his literary vision. but not interesting to hear him trash hillary clinton, lifelong worker for rights for women, people of color, disabled children--check that list of accomplishments, it's damned long, nearly 60 years of actual work done. not talk. work. the candidate whom most women of all colors preferred and whom Black people of both sexes, especially Black women, overwhelmingly preferred--and whom many, many writers preferred. mr. lehr had one job--to make a pitch for the value of a type of writing he wants to advance. and it's worth any writer's attention. but the rest--nope.

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