Criticism

The Hirsch Truth: Episode 2

by Ann Hirsch

In the second installment of her web series, Ann Hirsch critiques poems by Pierre Gervois and Denise Duhamel published on literary marketplace theVERSEverse, as well as a drop from Lushsux on drp.io. She also introduces a new segment called Flash Reviews where she shares her gut reactions to NFTs, this time while browsing the Tezos-based platform fxhash.

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