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From the KGB Files . . .
Sally Ashton and Nin Andrews wowed the KGB audience on Monday, March 30, 2009. Here is a poem from each set: Sally Ashton reads her poem, "American Mayhem," or "Stateside." Nin Andrews reads…
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Mighty Windy (by David Yezzi)
I'm a big Christoper Guest fan. (So are you. Admit it.) Spinal Tap? Fuggedaboudit. Brilliant! Nigel Tufnel is hilarious. So, if you ask me, is Corky St. Clair from Waiting fo Guffman (though I realize opinions…
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The brain is wider than the sky [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, How are you? April is the cruelest month but I try not to pull too many lilacs from the dead. A new interview just went up on Dr. Ginger Campbell’s Books and…
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“Dan Quixote” [by Jim Dolot]
Dan Quixote My parents had this thing about People with all five vowels in their name Were more likely to succeed. Dad, Jim Quixote, always regretted That his parents had been in the dark…
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RIP Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre wrote "Lara's Theme" (for Doctor Zhivago) and won Academy Awards for it and for the haunting desert music of Lawrence of Arabia, another David Lean picture. The heroic march that you hear…
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The Ghost Soldiers
Here is the epigraph of James Tate’s most recent book, The Ghost Soldiers (2008): <<The paratroopers fall and as they fallThey mow the lawn. — Wallace Stevens>>
