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“Happy 60, Lee Upton!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
LEE UPTON (6/2)Hasenpfeffer!Kitchy kitchy coo.Gretchen’s in the kitchenThrowing pepper in da stew.Puppets in the plazaAnd rabbits in the zooSinging Hasenpfeffer!A kitchy kitchy coo.○Hupton, Pupton!Ya nip it in the bud.Ya pup it in the oven…
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“Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain” [by Delmore Schwartz]
1 A tattering of rain and then the reign Of pour and pouring-down and down, Where in the westward gathered the filming gown Of grey and clouding weakness, and, in the mane Of the…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Ed Ochester of The Pitt Poetry Series
NA: When I think of the University of Pittsburgh Press’s poetry series, I think of the name, Ed Ochester. How long have you been with the press? EO:I became the poetry editor at Pittsburgh…
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Re-Visiting “The Reaper” [by Daniel Westover]
When I applied to the MFA program at McNeese State, the application process was straightforward: you sent some poetry or some fiction, and you either got a phone call or you didn’t. Test scores,…
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Wild Medicine: A Poetry Walk at The New York Botanical Garden (through September 8, 2013) by Stephanie Paterik
"I am tired." The first line of Walahfrid Strabo's poem “Rose” is perched among the perennials in The New York Botanical Garden as if it grew from soil. And it’s how you feel when…
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“Happy 48, Eleni Sikelianos!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
ELENI SIKELIANOS (5/31)You have to come essplainy’cuz dey nebber unnerston os.With a very happy birthday toEleni Sikelianos.The Lower Forty-eight complainThey canno grow bananos.With a very happy birthday toEleni Sikelianos.Zoologist, he plainly loveDe khippos and…
