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A Living, Behemoth Glossary for Poets & Other Crazy Creatives
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Shannan Mann
Against the Cult of Productivity in Writing
Dear writers in your rot-era, be free & see past the myth
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In Hell
Who conjured dreams for the devil when he fell in hell?
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The Problem of Poetry
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