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“Lesbian Corn” [by Elaine Equi]
Lesbian Corn Lesbian Corn In summerI strip awayyour pale kimono.Your tousled hair too,comes off in my handsleaving youcompletely naked.All ears andtiny yellow teeth. — Elaine Equi
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Nicole Cooley & Kimiko Hahn at KGB [by Julia Cohen]
Often, poets spend most of their allotted time reading from their most recently published book. Not Nicole Cooley or Kimiko Hahn. While Cooley’s The Afflicted Girls and Hahn’s The…
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“Mad Men” and Marilyn (Quick Update)
On Mad Men it's the summer of 1962. I've just turned fourteen. Marilyn Monroe just died. The press wonders: Suicide or Accident? (Only later will theorists postulate that she was murdered.) The girls in…
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Happy New Year [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
This is the second post I’ve ever blogged, yesterday’s post being the first, except maybe when I blogged for the New York Times a few times, but they just call it blogging, it’s not…
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The Financial Crisis
It's easy to get scared when you listen to the talking heads — and when the Congress (the Republicans especially) so irresponsibly and even irrationally votes down the so-called bailout that, while imperfect, would…
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Last night at KGB Bar. . .
Last night Nicole Cooley and Kimiko Hahn read at KGB Bar. Many of Cooley’s poems centered on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in her native New Orleans. Hahn read a scary but amusing,…
