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Paul Baerman
  • The “old-fasioned” Mary Oliver
    In her early poems, Mary Oliver was quite competent at writing in the allegedly defunct form of a sonnet — a lovely one.

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Why I’m here
I play music (oboe, English horn, occasionally the alto or soprano sax). I write—plays, poems, stories, all sorts of stuff.  I like to read my drafts aloud, bellowing and howling up in my atelier, rather to the family dogs’ dismay.

Why you’re here
Come look over my shoulder. I need your help to make something beautiful or terrible or epiphanic. Be honest.

Note the “Contact me” page should you, um, want to contact me.

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