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Jordan Smith: These Days

The danger of elegy is that it just tells us what we already know: we lose and suffer and become the subject of the loss and suffering of others. Liam had no patience for what he called the “I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed” school of poetry.

August 8, 2025 · 6 Comments

David Fenza: For Liam was Many

For he was so curious about the shapes & pressures
of our American lives, he made each friend
feel like the genius-author of a great story.

August 18, 2020 · 6 Comments

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