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“A Guide for the Perplexed” — chptr. one (by Mitch Sisskind)
A police car flashed lights in my mirror and I pulled to the curb. The cop approached — young, Asian. I lowered my window…
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The Haiku Masters of Japan drop in for a visit [by David Lehman]
Thanks to Bob Hass, I'mreading the haiku mastersof Japan — Basho, Buson and Issa —in one essential book: The Essential Haiku, published by Ecco,with smart intro and useful notes by Mr. Hass. Examples follow.(Translators…
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Save the Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 – The Best American Poetry 2011 Launch Reading. 7 PM, Tishman Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street, NYC)*
Series Editor David Lehman and Guest Editor Kevin Young will be joined by John Ashbery, Cara Benson, Michael Cirelli, Michael Dickman, Farrah Field, Major Jackson, Jennifer Knox,Katha Pollitt, James Richardson, Patricia Smith, Gerald Stern,…
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“And yet the compensations of calamity. . .” [by DL]
When I am in distress for real or unfathomable causes, when the chaos outside threatens to overwhelm the precarious order within, when anxities surround me on all sides like an invading army closing in…
