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Simon Barraclough, Guest Blogger May 6-10
This week we welcome Simon Barraclough as our guest blogger. Simon is the author of the Forward Prize-finalist debut, Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt, 2008), Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins, 2010) and Neptune…
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Holy Sonnets, Shakespeare! [by David Yezzi]
No doubt you have seen this headline from The Onion, one of their best: “Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended.” In recent years, the young director Arin Arbus (the daughter…
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Sandy Koufax’s Scouting Report — and Tom Seaver’s
In 1965, the scout watched Seaver pitch for USC and wrote, "This boy showed a real good fast ball with good life … boy has plenty of desire to pitch and wants to beat…
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Cicadas and a Poem by Jennifer L. Knox [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Blue skies, pink cherry trees, yellow and red tulips, new-green leaves. As your correspondent from Brooklyn I report that all this color is exploding on the usual grey of asphalt and slate,…
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The Greening of Bohemia [by David Yezzi]
I want to tell you about one of my favorite poems at the moment. It’s from Lord Byron’s Foot, by George Green, which was selected last year by David Mason for The New Criterion…
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Speak the Speech, Part II [by David Yezzi]
If you can keep your head, while Dennis Hopper recites Rudyard Kipling’s “If” on the Johnny Cash Show, then you are a better man than me, my son. Check it out: The poem…
