Steven Ratiner

Steven Ratiner is a poet, educator, book reviewer, publisher of The Red Letters. Since 2019, he has been the Poet Laureate of Arlington, MA

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I am delighted to share the news that my new poetry collection, GRIEF'S APOSTROPHE, has been published by Beltway Editions. It can be purchased on most of the book sites like https://t.co/UpvHSfZfwv, Amazon, and Barnes&Noble. Take a look!
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It's my pleasure to announce Dzvinia Orlowsky has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Шум,” published as Red Letter #275. - part of a sequence reclaiming Ukrainian words from Russification. Congrats, Dzvinia!
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I've been remiss!
The last two Red Letters were gems: #294-Susan Donnelly’s delightful meditation on Bach, automotive emergencies, and the freedom of what comes next.
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And…

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…and RLP#295 - Jennifer Clarvoe’s “On the Road Between the Keats House and the Freud House” a spiritual travelog covering a tiny swatch of London.

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The Red Letters is beginning its SEVENTH year, marked with a poem from my own Grief's Apostrophe.

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A new piece from poet Carolyne Wright: "Making Love in a Cemetery"--teenage lust shaped into an Italian sonnet.

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Linda Bamber's new poem (RLP #286), by turns sardonic and solemn, takes us back to Covid & our shared brush with mortality.

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RLP#282: a poem from former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser from the new chapbook FELLOW CREATURES--a benefit for the Red Letters.

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Red Letter#277: a marvelous new poem from acclaimed poet Carol Muske-Dukes' next book, (BAD) SCHEHERAZADE.

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What sly delight in Pam Alexander's "Long Story Short" published as RLP#274 - a history of Earth and its possible destruction.

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RLP#243: a poem from Kevin McLellan's collection Sky. Pond. Mouth. -- heartbreak and revelation. To receive the new installment, subscribe, or submit poems: https://t.co/L37Ryv2B1X or view at: https://t.co/gGVmPayFXb #KevinMcLellan #RedLetters #WaltWhitman

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Celebrating Ted Kooser's new chapbook - a benefit for the Red Letters. Read about it in this week's RLP:

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Red Letter #271 features a poem from one of China's foremost poets, Wang Jiaxin - utterly relevant to our times.

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Poet-turned-soldier, in defense of Ukraine, Artur Dron' offers us an honest, harrowing glimpse from the frontlines. RLP#266

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Jack Stewart offers yet another fascinating take on the Wicked Witch of the (far) West in his new Red Letter poem.
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Acclaimed novelist Askold Melnyczuk's first love was poetry. The Venus of Odesa collects his poems& translations. RLP#264 depicts conscience clashing with calamity.
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Heart-breakingly beautiful - Susan Roney-O’Brien's new poems about coping with an awful diagnosis: MS. Red Letter #263.

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A posthumous poem from Danielle Legros Georges, built upon slave documents from Colonial N. E. Crispus Attucks lives! To receive the new installment, subscribe, or submit: https://t.co/aIAgMjAEib or view at: https://t.co/gGVmPayFXb
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In RLP#260, science, history, and poetry collide inside Teresa Cader's lovely meditation on how we 'know.'

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RLP#259 is a lovely triparte poem from Susan Donnelly exploring 'the nature of things' in our emotional lives.

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Our bitter childhood mistakes? George Kalogeris' beautiful poem wonders: is atonement possible?

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