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Good afternoon, BSB readers. You have been waiting for a while now, if you’ve been waiting at all, for a new post. I do have a few posts “in the works”, as does Greg (yay! for Greg!) but they have been slow in their development. So I thought I’d give you all a little poke in the ribs with this grab-bag post about a new Fayetteville band, …

I admit that I had not read much of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry before hearing of his death recently on the radio. But as a reader and a former student of poetry, I had heard the name many times, perhaps from one of the many books he edited as well as wrote. My collection of poetry at home contains none of his books and I found only a few of his poems in my wife’s copy of the Norton Anthology of American Poetry.
My reaction after the radio story, like many people …