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Halfway Decent Sinners by Michael Cleary (CustomWords,
Paperback, 120 pp., $17.00) Reviewed by Jesse Millner
Perhaps every poet should drive a beer truck. Perhaps every
poet should grow up with the rigorous rigmarole of Catholicism.If that were to happen, then, and only
then, would a poet craft a book as funny, sorrowful and beautiful as Michael Cleary’s Halfway Decent Sinners...(Read full review here)
Join Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais as she takes us on her journey to the Key West of the late 70s to meet
the playwright in her essay "Do You Want to See My Shrine?"
Lynne Barrett reviews Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and
its Politics and Tom De Marchi interviews Richard Grayson, author of Write In: Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth District
The Search for Florida's Forgotten Poet Laureate
