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Try writing a Sonnet. How about a Shakespearean Sonnet?

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Try writing a Sonnet. How about a Shakespearean Sonnet?

Try writing a Sonnet.  How about a Shakespearean Sonnet? Let us speak here of Vivian Smallwood whose book, And Finding No Mouse There was published by Negative Capability Press in 1983.  I say confidently that Vivian Smallwood...

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The American Sentence

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The American Sentence

It’s just plain easy to write one sentence, yes?  That’s all we have to do, isn’t it? Write one sentence and then another and yet another – and we have a prose poem, a short story, a novel...

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Remember that first kiss? Write About it.

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Remember that first kiss? Write About it.

Remember that first kiss?  Write about it. Here’s a free-verse poem by Jack Bedell who is a professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he edits Louisiana Literature, one of the best journals in the South...

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You Are What You Eat – or so they say

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You Are What You Eat – or so they say

Negative Capability Press is planning an issue on food. We love to eat: fried chicken, oysters—fried, stewed, or nude.  We love recipes and menus and cookbooks. Among our favorites are Eugene Walter’s Termite Hall...

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