Animals – Paul Baerman

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Animals – 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.

Five Pages of Verse

Yesterday my friend Kristin and I completed our submission for an Orange County grant that would enable us to commission and perform a song cycle based on my poems. The idea excites me. Also yesterday, I submitted five pages of verse, as required, to the North Carolina Poetry Society, which offers a weeklong residency at… Continue reading Five Pages of Verse

“Ladies of the Pack”: Werewolves, or What It Means to be Human

There’s Cassandra, who hopes to become an IRS accountant and just wants everyone to get along; Sunny, who used to train assassins but now just wishes for a little furball with fangs; and their hostess, Allegra, who craves revenge for her being mortal.