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Monday, July 6, 2009

Barbara Hamby gets Satanic!

I just finished Barbara Hamby's Babel. One of my favorite poems from it, "Ode on Satan's Power," is all about Satan. Read it via Verse Daily.
Posted by D'Anne Witkowski at 9:28 AM
Labels: Barbara Hamby, poetry, Satan

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Poets I Know and/or Admire

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  • Adam Theriault
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  • Alice Notley
  • Barbara Hamby
  • Carly Harschlip
  • Cheri L. R. Taylor
  • David Kirby
  • Denver Butson
  • Diane Lockward
  • Dorianne Laux
  • Elizabeth Gramm
  • Emily Mahan
  • Emily Zinnemann
  • francine j. harris
  • Greg Rappleye
  • Jeffrey McDaniel
  • Jennifer Metsker
  • Jessica Care Moore
  • Joe Millar
  • Joshua Mehigan
  • Karyna McGlynn
  • KC Trommer
  • Keith Taylor
  • Khaled Mattawa
  • Laura Kasischke
  • Linda Gregerson
  • Lorna Goodison
  • M.L. Liebler
  • Mark Doty
  • Matthea Harvey
  • Michelle Brown
  • Nava EtShalom
  • Nick Flynn
  • Rachel Zucker
  • Rebecca Dunham
  • Sandra Beasley
  • Thomas Lynch

Writers I Know and/or Like Who Aren't Poets

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  • Margaret Lazarus Dean
  • Michael Shilling
  • Nami Mun
  • Preeta Samarasan
  • Randa Jarrar
  • Valerie Laken
 

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