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Film Still Series – Intimacies # 4 [by Bill Hayward]
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. See more…
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“Modern Love”: XLVIII [by George Meredith]
# 48 Their sense is with their senses all mixed in,Destroyed by subtleties these women are!More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall marUtterly this fair garden we might win.Behold! I looked for…
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JMH presents a poem by Amy Holman [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Bloved Bleaders, So it's like actually 2009. And it's dark already here in the afternoon. So let's all curl up around the humming screens and read a poem together. This is by Amy…
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“Underground” (by Barack Obama)
Barack Obama wrote this poem as an undergraduate: Underground Under water grottos, cavernsFilled with apesThat eat figs.Stepping on the figsThat the apesEat, they crunch.The apes howl, bareTheir fangs, dance,Tumble in theRushing water,Musty, wet peltsGlistening…
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More Bits and Bobs for the New Year
This comes to us from the American Academy of Arts & Science: "Five poets are recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Poetry Prize. The award, being presented for the first time,…
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Haiku Exchange # 1 [David Lehman and David Shapiro, 2003]
An exchange of e-mails on January 2, 2003, prompted David Shapiro to suggest to David Lehman that the two Davids "link haiku" for a year. They more modestly sustained their haiku exchange through the…
