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Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

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A blog that feels its way through the fog of ideas.

Short dispatches on the things that shape my ideas as a writer, critic, and human being.

June 02, 2025

The Quiet Persistence of Poet Spencer Reece

June 02, 2025/ Michael Quinn
The Quiet Persistence of Poet Spencer Reece

Hundreds of rejections later, he sold something. That poem changed his life.

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