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Poets’ Poets: A Renaissance of Words, edited by Dennis Barone

Spuyten Duyvil Review by David Starkey “You are not for all markets,” Rosalind reminds the shepherdess Phoebe in As You Like It, and Dennis Barone, the editor of Poets’ Poets:…

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kristen Menger-Anderson

House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr

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