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Happy Birthday to Michael Hartnett and Poem of the Week
There will be a talking of lovely things,
there will be cognizance of the seasons,
there will be men who know the flights of birds.
Poem of the Week: “Elegy for Minor Poets” by Louis MacNeice
“Who often found their way to pleasant meadows
Or maybe once to a peak, who saw the Promised Land,
Who took the correct three strides but tripped their hurdles,
Who had some prompter they barely could understand . . .”
Happy Belated Birthday Conor O’Callaghan
“I toast my new age. I drink its tongue-roll, its wheel-whirr, on the road to Montecarlo. Quarantaquattro, quarantaquattro, quarantaquattro …” Conor O’Callaghan turned 45 on September 20th. All of us here at Wake Forest University Press toast Conor as he embarks on quarantecinque. The quote above is from The Pearl Works, a collection of 52…
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