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Nick Ripatrazone Offers a Brief History (and Celebration) of
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Nick Ripatrazone
| August 7, 2019
Got Writer's Block?
Read This Poem
Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."
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Nick Ripatrazone
| July 25, 2019
The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story
The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter
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Nick Ripatrazone
| June 20, 2019
Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks
“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”
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Nick Ripatrazone
| April 2, 2019
Is Line Editing a Lost Art?
"A great teacher is a gift. A great line editor is a miracle."
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Nick Ripatrazone
| February 6, 2019
Literary Magazines Are Born to Die
Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget
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Nick Ripatrazone
| November 2, 2018
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| September 5, 2018
The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation
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Nick Ripatrazone
| July 27, 2018
The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing
One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next
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Nick Ripatrazone
| July 20, 2018
On the Sleepless Lives of Writers
Insomnia: Source of Suffering or Creativity?
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Nick Ripatrazone
| June 26, 2018
Donald Hall: Poet of Eagle Pond Farm
When a Writer is Inextricably Linked to Place
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Nick Ripatrazone
| June 25, 2018
The 1961 Novel That Makes a Great Case for Moviegoing
On Walker Percy's
The Moviegoer
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Nick Ripatrazone
| June 14, 2018
Sometimes the Best Way to Read is to Mark Up the Book
On the Revelatory Power of Annotations
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Nick Ripatrazone
| April 23, 2018
At the Edge of the Woods: Why Writers Need Wilderness
The Forest is Full of Stories
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Nick Ripatrazone
| April 11, 2018
Young Writers Need to Believe Their Stories Matter
Nick Ripatrazone on the Power of Praise
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Nick Ripatrazone
| March 26, 2018
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