From the essay "A Word Predator"

Lately, I've been taking dream dictation from E.B. White. He tells me sinuously in my sleep how to write and what to think. He urges me to be more serious, yet light on my feet—virtuous, like a verb that spins away. White's style, a passion while he lived, is assertively nonchalant. His wisdom is impossible to retrieve, word for word, the morning after. Still, I wake up knowing that I have been instructed in
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—Molly McQuade, from Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things In Between

Open submissions season at Sarabande is right around the corner. All comers are welcome in the month of September, and you can find the details here.

RALPH declares Eleanor Lerman's Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds one of the best poetry books of the last fifteen years.

Eleanor Lerman's poetry is back on The Writer's Almanac! Check out "The City, Berobed in Blue" from The Sensual World Re-emerges.

09-11-2010
The Sensual World Re-emerges

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