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“Autobiography” [by Amy Leigh Cutler]
I am afraidshe cannot save mebut watch how the birdsgather her in circles she knows something I do notor why would she hold her chin that waywhile I am hunched"in the forest eating my…
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Inertia [poem by Susan Elliott Brown]
Before it was lit, the cigarettelay dormant in the pack. A setof foreign lighters from our tripabroad didn’t always have a chippedcase. Colors depict a banneret in battle, saving a small brunette;I’m reminded of…
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APIA Series: R.A. Villanueva Poem and Interview [by Sally Wen Mao]
Next up in our APIA Kundiman poetry series: R.A. Villanueva! R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the…
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Dinner Party [poem by Susan Elliott Brown]
In the room women come and goTalking of Michelangelo. -T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” A woman said a lamp in the parlorreminded her of Michelangelo’ssculpture, but he was the…
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APIA Series: Ocean Vuong Poem and Interview [by Sally Wen Mao]
Happy Spring! I’m Sally Wen Mao, your guest blogger for the week, and this month, my first book, Mad Honey Symposium, is coming out. You can check it out at the Alice James Books website or…
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Lagarde, Hirsi Ali, Rice, and Abramson: Welcome to the BAP blog [by David Lehman]
It has come to everyone's attention, even ours, that three notable women were to give the commencement addresses at three notable American institutions — and that all three came to nought. Brandeis was going…
