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Henri Cole on the enemies within
And why they’re a gift
Mason Currey
May 1
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Alice Notley on getting things to come easily
Here’s the secret, if you can bear it
Mason Currey
Mar 20
88
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Bernadette Mayer will give you ideas
On the late American poet’s irrepressible confident weirdness
Mason Currey
Mar 6
164
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How to solve a creative block
Five ideas for getting unstuck
Mason Currey
Oct 31, 2022
108
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Robert Graves’s writing paradise
A visit to the English poet and novelist’s home in Majorca
Mason Currey
May 31, 2022
36
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“A strange empty day”
From May Sarton’s journals—plus, more on paid newsletters
Mason Currey
Apr 4, 2022
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Alexander Pope’s paid subscription model
And my thoughts about adopting one for this newsletter
Mason Currey
Mar 21, 2022
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Mary Ruefle does not own a computer
“If you asked me to email you a poem, I couldn’t.”
Mason Currey
Oct 25, 2021
28
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Byron composed on horseback, Shelley gnawed a hunch of dry bread
A visit with the legendary Romantic poets in Pisa
Mason Currey
Apr 5, 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe, procrastinator
“I know too well the unconquerable procrastination which besets the poet.”
Mason Currey
Oct 5, 2020
3
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John Ashbery's writing process was the best writing process
"The longest way is the most efficient way."
Mason Currey
Jul 27, 2020
6
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Eileen Myles on writing in a pandemic
“It’s been a real workshop with solitude.”
Mason Currey
Jul 6, 2020
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