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Last Monday at KGB Bar [by Megin Jimenez]
Last Monday at KGB Bar, our own series founder Star (“I can’t be a celebrity because I punctuate”) Black, took to the podium with friend and city poet Geoffrey O’Brien. Star read from her…
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Dianne Blakely tours the South (by David Yezzi)
Dianne Blakely is a phenomenal poet, and just now she's publishing a series of articles on Swampland.com about lesser-known but wonderful Southern poets that is well worth a look. First up are Lisa Russ…
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Paul TILLICH: PART 4
Wow what a beautiful day, blog readers! I’m at the window here, watching cats watching whishing leaves, armed with my NJOY electric cigarette, an ingenious contraption that allows you to inhale nicotine-infused water vapor. I’m…
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ON PAUL TILLICH: PART 3 [by Matthew Yeager]
HELLO BEST AMERICAN BLOG READER(S). Good to be back for my third installment; today begins the draft, some of the most exciting few days of the year for NFL fans. Even during the Bengals’…
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Split, a poem for an April night [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I like the idea that if I post this now I will have posted on Wednesday. I've got nine minutes. So here's a poem, first published at The New Republic last year.…
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Young Badboy Brown (by Mitch Sisskind)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown" powerfully depicts the experience of what could be called disillusionment — but that's putting it too mildly. What the title character experiences is existential shock at the realization…
