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“Supernatural Love” [by Gjertrud Schnackenberg]
My father at the dictionary stand Touches the page to fully understand The lamplit answer, tilting in his hand His slowly scanning magnifying lens, A blurry, glistening circle he suspends Above the word 'Carnation'.…
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AN INTERVIEW, VIDEO PIECE, AND POEM FROM NICK TWEMLOW [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
The following interview with film-maker, poet, and editor Nick Twemlow took place in mid-June of 2012 in Iowa City. Nick’s first poetry collection, Palm Trees, is forthcoming (along with the poet Joel Craig’s first…
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“Young Blue Eyes: Frankie in the Forties” [by David Lehman]
Back in January 2008, when Dwight Garner was editing the "Living with Music" blog for the New York Times, I got to write a column on my top twenty Sinatra tracks from the 1940s,…
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Laura Orem Presents a Poem by Jim Valvis
How many poems can you name that explore the complicated relationship between fathers and sons? There are a lot. Some of the best and most-well known are Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"; Hayden's "Those Winter…
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A LETTER AND POEMS FROM ISH KLEIN [ROBERT FERNANDEZ]
Ish Klein’s poems are a synthesis of imagination, virtuosity, and feeling the likes of which I’ve never seen before. For this post, I asked Ish to write a poetics statement and asked if I…
