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Nathan Brown
Aug 5, 20161 min read
On the Politics of Poetry
I'm still refusing to talk politics. . . though, I'm weakening, I'll admit. But I thought this little thought on the politics of poetry...
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Nathan Brown
Aug 3, 20162 min read
A Literary Reprieve
Well, the dark year that books (the ones made with paper pages and covers that bend and warp with a reader’s love) were scheduled to...
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Nathan Brown
Jul 19, 20161 min read
On the Sexiness of Plagiarism
So... maybe Melania Trump's speech had a super model in Michelle Obama. Okay. But, let's remember that plagiarism has a great and...
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Brownlines Writers' Blog
Jul 7, 20161 min read
O Walt! My Whitman!
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the...
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Nathan Brown
Jul 5, 20161 min read
If You Must...
"Poetry makes you famous without an audience, an abstract or kind of photo-fame." ~ Ben Lerner I just finished reading Ben Lerner's...
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Nathan Brown
Jun 16, 20161 min read
A Harsh Probability
If a poem could be considered "bad" (let's say, in a theoretical world -- since, in a politically correct world, it is not possible),...
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Nathan Brown
Jun 3, 20161 min read
The Longer Way...
Poems are the back roads of literature. They’re asking you to slow down. You’ve got to watch out for the speed limits in all the little...
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Nathan Brown
May 28, 20161 min read
On Being Offensive...
I'm writing a book on Genesis (the biblical one) right now, and I can see that some of it will be offensive, if not highly, to some...
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Nathan Brown
May 21, 20161 min read
Some Days...
Some days I'm just a dung beetle pushin' balls of it 'cross the road. Just another Dum or Dee Tweedle, n' can't tell the crap from the...
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Nathan Brown
May 8, 20161 min read
Frogs, Redwing Blackbirds, and John Denver
I just spent a week in Northwest New Mexico, or Southwest Colorado, depending on which map you’re looking at. The only sounds around were...
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Nathan Brown
May 4, 20161 min read
In All Seriousness
In all seriousness... when we treat serious subjects "in all seriousness" as writers, we lose the serious audience. If we have a dead...
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Nathan Brown
Apr 12, 20161 min read
Poets for People Who Don't Like Poetry
This list is long overdue... mainly because I keep changing my mind. But I've decided just to edit or add to it down the road. Of course...
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Nathan Brown
Mar 23, 20161 min read
Another Rule to Ignore
(1) Every beautiful poem... should contain at least one line that is painful, or pinches your better judgment. (2) Every painful poem......
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Nathan Brown
Mar 15, 20161 min read
Not Quite Done Yet...
I'm long enough out of the loop now, that I no longer feel much of a need to argue with academics over the nature of high versus low art....
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