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Dark, with Sugar [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Some Lines I love From Brenda Shaughnessy’s amazing poetry book, Human Dark With Sugar: – If time were tellable, we wouldn’t keep asking. – What kind of poetry is all question, anyway? – Oh Materialists!…
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sticks and stones… [by Amy Lemmon]
The word retarded, tossed from a dear friend’s mouth, feels sharp as swords or stones. I am no saint. I have wanted to write about this for so long, but am completely daunted by…
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Hump Day
Have you tried Wordle yet? Wordle takes a block of your text and rearranges it to look like something from a mid-Century graphic design catalogue. I tried it with a favorite poem and here’s…
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“Ex-Basketball Player” [by John Updike]
Ex-Basketball Player Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut offBefore it has a chance to go two blocks,At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth's GarageIs on the corner facing…
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Personality Test # 1
It is 2009. You follow your boss at a sales conference. Throughout her presentation – on marketing a new DVD of Oliver Stone’s JFK – she makes wildly erroneous statements, e.g. that Gerald Ford…
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Eugene Ostashevsky’s “P or Not P” [Heather Christle]
I am a little obsessed with Eugene Ostashevsky's latest book, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza. I first encountered his work a few years ago, when someone introduced me to this fantastic video…
