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Round 3: Jesse Ball’s Favorite Covers [by Phoebe Putnam]
After Don Share's playful typographical covers, and Nick Flynn's chromatically saturated, sinuous ones, we continue today with the covers of poet, novelist, and former spy Jesse Ball, who may or may not be on…
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To Summer [by David Lehman]
It's sizzling summer sonnet time here on the BAP blog. This one by David Lehman first appeared on Nerve.com.Enjoy! To Summer Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body…
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Bar Napkin Sonnet #23 [by Moira Egan]
BAR NAPKIN SONNET #23 Sometimes you have to swallow. I love youmight otherwise escape your lust-dumb lips.By dumb I mean here dim-witted, not mute,though I have learned the Helen Keller trickto see no, hear…
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“What Are You (Looking Forward to) Reading?”
The poet Craig Morgan Teicher, an officer on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, has been editing a column for Critical Mass, the NBCC blog. He directs the question "What Are you…
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poetry problem; or I wake up and spend twenty dollars [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, Well, Phoebe Putnam I hope you are proud of yourself. I clicked right through to amazon.com and now await mailbox boxes. I'm in a state of being rather abated, or rather,…
