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Florida Wedding
Continue reading: Florida WeddingA poem from BLOODROOT, the debut collection by the Irish poet and former Kerouac House writer in residence Annemarie Ní Churreáin.
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Memories of the Road: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Continue reading: Memories of the Road: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of On The Road by Jack KerouacLate evening in College Park, outside Downtown Orlando, sixty years after Jack Kerouac’s generation-defining opus On the Road reached critical acclaim, cicadas trilled in ancient trees teased by winds from Hurricane Irma…
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Some Thoughts on Florida literature
Continue reading: Some Thoughts on Florida literatureAt best this narrative elevates the state to the level of mythology (a pattern of bungling Florida men become Florida Man). At worst Florida is no more than the butt of a joke…
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Czar Thumbsky
Continue reading: Czar ThumbskyA troupe of Russian dwarves retired from the circus to found a community built to their scale in South Florida. They purchased land off the Tamiami Trail bordering an endless plain of flooded sawgrass and called it Sweetwater, a mistranslation of the Seminole name for the same swamp.
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Fall
Continue reading: FallA new poem dedicated to the city of Orlando, by Orlando’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Susan Lilley.