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  • Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Lynn Emanuel

    April 12, 2009

     Eavan Boland says that Lynn’s poems ‘have rare power: they connect to the world through estrangement.’ Yes, but that may sound forbidding. They’re also enormously playful and witty. She has an ‘Homage to Sharon…

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  • Happy Easter!

    April 12, 2009

    (Thanks to Scott S for bringing this to my attention — sdh)

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  • This Week

    April 11, 2009

    In honor of National Poetry Month:  One month of poets' tattoos over at Tattoosday!  Check these out:  We all know that our Red Lion correspondent is a fine writer.  But did you know that…

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  • Think about it. . .

    April 11, 2009

    "Every form is a kind of mask." — Paul Violi

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  • Keats, Kern et al.

    April 11, 2009

    See Tom Clark on Keats and William Zinsser's book "Easy to Remember" on the melodic construction of Jerome Kerns's "All the Things Your Are" and much else.   Here's to you, John Keats and…

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  • “Interaction with the Event Horizon” [by Alina Gregorian]

    April 11, 2009

    Interaction with the Event Horizon I have died twice thinking about America. To sing for the little elephant who gave Pluto a moon, then watched it collapse. To suffocate ourselves for permission to see…

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