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Talk to Me in Long Lines

Mary

A journal for long (preferably over 40 lines) narrative verse and dramatic monologues.

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Poems for August

Dear Reader,

As August comes to an end, we’ve got two fantastic poems for you from two of the finest poets working today: Daniel Brown and Maryann Corbett. Both poems are, in a way, ekphrastic poems, if we can consider a television show ar...

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A Salmon Speaks of the Sea

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You approach it
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Watching Maigret en français

Watching Maigret en français

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To shock alive my conversational French
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Steven Knepper on Narrative Verse

Dear Reader,

We’ll have some poems for you soon, but, in the meantime, please take a look at this new essay on narrative verse from Steve Knepper (the 2026 Wiseblood Writer-in-Residence). We are especially grateful for his note reminding r...

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A Parable

Photo credit: Kaitlyn Rangonese, on the author’s grandpa’s farm in WNY

A Parable

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All growing up, we’d pick our favorite pigs
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    Writer and poet from Havertown, PA. Social Media Editor at Dappled Things, founding editor and editor-in-chief of Talk to Me in Long Lines: A Journal of Long(ish) Narrative Verse and Dramatic Monologues, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books.

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