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Announcing David Lehman’s “New and Selected Poems.” In bookstores November 5, 2013
“Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world. David Lehman is such a writer.” —Robert Olen Butler “Inventive and often winningly sincere…Lehman is candid as well as ironic—sometimes, both at once.…
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The “Slate” Diary #5 (Bennington College, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998) [by David Lehman]
Anne McCarty and I hold our “exit meeting” — the one that faculty members are supposed to have with the five students they’ve worked with during the last six months — at the Blue…
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Call Me Right Away When You Get This [by Amanda Smeltz]
The epistle is a poetic form I am enamored of. I come to know it first through biblical epistles, those…
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The “Slate” Diary #4 (Bennington College, Wed., Jan. 14 1998) [by David Lehman]
Political correctness isn’t dead. In her lecture on Robert Frost, Marie Howe [left] unwittingly antagonized a young hip-hop poet sitting in the front row. Marie was distinguishing the wild bucks that turn…
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“Happy 26, Margaret Ross!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
MARGARET ROSS (10/17)Ross! Ross! Ross!and we’re bouncing off the wallsToday’s the day, your birthday,to sock him in the ballsSo sock him in the balls!Today you’re twenty-six!Adderall is throwing allthe punches and the kicksWith the…
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Poetry off the Shelf: Orlando Ricardo Menes & Dan Vera
Attention Chicagoans! Next week, the Poetry Foundation will host two gifted Latino poets at its HQ in Chicago for a reading, book signing, and reception: Dan Vera — author of Speaking Wiri Wiri, which…
