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I promised David Lehman ten puns today
Here they are. Plus one to grow on. Didya hear about the infamous movie director who tumbled down the snowy mountain? …He had a roaming pole and ski. Didya the good natured Hasid who…
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“All the Things You Are”: The Greatest Love Song?
The other day, David proclaimed that Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" is the greatest of all love songs and Jill Alexander Essbaum asked why. David played a Sinatra cover from 1944 and…
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Kid Bids Hub Fans Adieu
At Fenway Park on September 28, 1960, Ted Williams hit a home run in his last at bat, an event memorialized by John Updike in "Kid Bids Hub Fans Adieu," a superb article in…
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Why typing John Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” is a good thing [by Dara Wier]
These, I suppose, two Candadians, have been watching me for many years. They're in a painting James Tate and I found on a trans-Canadian road trip. We don't know who they are, or why…
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Dara Wier, Guest Blogger September 13- October 17
For the next several weeks, Dara Wier will be our guest blogger. Dara’s posts will appear every few days. Wier is the author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently Selected Poems (Wave, 2009). …
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Photos from the Gala Launch Reading (II) — by Bill Hayward
Mark Doty reading at the gala launch reading for The Best American Poetry 2009at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in NYCSeptember 24, 2009 photo credit: Bill Hayward
