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“A National Anthem?” (by Laura Orem)
I grew up near Baltimore, so field trips to Fort McHenry were obligatory in elementary school. We learned the lyrics…
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“L’Shana Tova” [by David Lehman]
L’Shana Tova[for David Shapiro] I hear the ram’s horn.Do you? Do you rememberfather, son, mountain? L’shana tovaold friend, mentor, fellow Jew,you from New Jersey, I from Manhattan,and we met not in templebut Columbia and…
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This Just In
Our friend and sometime guest blogger Eleanor Goodman writes to tell us about the Simmons College International Contemporary Chinese Poetry Festival, which will take place on the campus of Simmons College in Boston on…
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Hello Best American Poetry readers, and a Goodbye to Paul Newman [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Hello. I’m Jennifer Michael Hecht. You can call me Jennifer. Thanks Stacey and David for the invitation to chat at you this week. If you think of philosophy, poetry, and history as trades, then…
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Significant Mother [by Joy Katz]
Part I: Rage By Joy Katz This is the first installment of a series on the subject of poetry and motherhood. It is not, I promise, a forum for gratuitous cute kid pix, but…
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“One Plus One” [Haiku by David Shapiro]
it may be too hard to think of me as silence like thirsty flowers in the Luxembourg I paused to cry for hours beside patient friends…
