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The Strangers: Occupied France, 1940-1944.
Previously: A Shattered People: The Fall of France, 1940.
 • Brad Skow
Tell Me What You Really Think
James Reeves published A Short History of English Poetry in 1961, and boy is it fun to read, if you like nastiness, especially that unique nastiness…
 • Brad Skow
A Shattered People: The Fall of France, 1940
The French had been on the winning side, in World War I.
 • Brad Skow
Poets of World War II
I wanted poems that would inspire deserved admiration for those who fought and died in that war.
 • Brad Skow
Found / Things
“Why don’t you assume you’ve written your book already—and all you have to do now is find it?”—So Steward Brand wrote, in an email to Brian Eno, and so…
 • Brad Skow
The first on the scene
I have a duty to love and care for these children (namely, mine).
 • Brad Skow
Free Indirect Style: A Theory
Free Indirect Style is a technique for communicating a character’s thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
 • Brad Skow
The Devil Quoting Scripture
Recently I picked up a book of Great American Speeches and found, to my disappointment, that the speeches of the nation’s founders were followed by a…
 • Brad Skow
On thought-rhyme; or, parallelism as a poetic technique
Poems don’t need meter, in our free verse age.
 • Brad Skow
Everything Old is New Again: The Scarlet Letter
While in jail, the ghostbusters study the blueprints of the apartment building that, it will turn out, is a portal to a demon world, and they notice…
 • Brad Skow
“I was like a wounded animal...”
The worst pain I ever felt was a broken arm.
 • Brad Skow
Publication Day
Today American Independence in Verse takes its first halting steps into the wider world.
 • Brad Skow
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