“PROSPECT/REFUGE,” ELAINE SEXTON
by Scott Hightower · January 29, 2019Prospect/Refuge is Elaine Sexton’s third book. It was published from Sheep Meadow Press in 2015. That year I was relaxed in writing reviews, did pen some [...]
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“How It Is, Selected Poems” / Neil Shepard — Salmon Poetry
by Scott Hightower · December 04, 2018I first encountered Neil Shepard on the page. I remember very much liking the poems. They were firmly inhabited with many of the same Robert Frost [...]
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Apples and Reading Selecteds
by Scott Hightower · October 01, 2018Fall, when fresh stacks of a wide variety of apples appear at the market, I luxuriate in the choice: Honey Crisps, Grannie Smiths, Gala, Delicious, Fuji, [...]
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J.D. McClatchy: A Great Literary Light Has Gone Out
by Scott Hightower · April 14, 2018When I studied in the graduate writing program at Columbia (the Fall of 1992), J.D. (Sandy) McClatchy was my prosody teacher and—at times—my workshop leader . [...]
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THE INCLUSIVE TABLE OF THE HUMAN IMAGINATION
by Scott Hightower · March 27, 2018COOKING WITH THE MUSE, Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla, Tupelo Press, 2016, 978-1-936797-68-4, $39.95 DARK AS A HAZEL EYE: Coffee & Chocolate Poems, Ellen Foos, Vasiliki [...]
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So Much Depends Upon …Transcription
by Scott Hightower · November 16, 2017This short piece is slightly adapted from an opening comment I once composed for a family record. "There are epochs . . . when mankind, not [...]
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