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Stealth-Deprecatory: Three Poems [by Jim Cummins]
Jim Cummins, Bulldog Drummond’s butt boy, barks he’s called “Skid Marquise.” * Note to DL (Sept, 2008) David: Lehman Brothers, dreamin’ as the oil slick smeared, just disappeared. * Jim Cummins got his summons…
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Frederick Douglass
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct,…
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Announcing the Third Annual Best American Poetry Poem Challenge
THE CHALLENGE: Write an Inaugural Ode Write an inaugural ode, suitable for reading aloud on January 20, 2009. It must consist of sixteen lines broken into four quatrains, rhyme scheme optional. The ode must…
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“Neck” [by Sarah Arvio]
Neck That isn’t done Grabbing your girlfriend’s neckisn’t done I mean it is done by godoften enough but not when I’m the girl or the friend I love you with all my souland all…
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John Leonard, 1939-2008: Ambushed Into Sentience [by Ken Tucker]
John Leonard, who died Nov. 5 at age 69, was a dizzyingly inspirational critic. Lots of people are going to write appreciations of his extraordinary body of literary criticism, and although I am here…
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Fred Astaire and Aunt Carrie: Ed Ochester at the New School [by Lindsay Daigle]
David Lehman (L) interviews Ed Ochester during the New School Poetry Forum. Photo by Stacey Harwood Having only just elected a new President of the United States nineteen or so hours earlier, Ed Ochester…
