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“In verse, these masterpieces are worth reading…” [Don Share]
There is No Opera Like "Lohengrin"John Wheelwright But one Apocalyptic Lion’s whelp (in fleshcalled William Lyon Phelps) purrs: After all,there is no opera like "Lohengrin"!My father, a Baptist preacher, a good man,is now with…
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“Paradoxes and Oxymorons” [by John Ashbery]
Ed. Note: John Ashbery is one of the readers tonight at the gala reading for Best American Poetry 2008 at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12 Street in New York) at…
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Caroline Knox, Michael Quattrone, and Danielle Pafunda
Caroline Knox, Michael Quattrone, and Danielle Pafudna at KGB Bar, September 22, 2008photo by Star Black
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The Mad Hatter’s Take on BAP 2008 [by Lauren MacArthur[
On The Best American Poetry 2008 Charles Wright is a boonie hat, sullied — not soiled from his own hunt, rather, kneeling, peering inside the forest’s dirt watching the aborigines capture and mercilessly kill.…
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Separated at birth: Dylan Thomas and… Winston Churchill? [Don Share]
As I was getting some stitches done in a doctor’s office yesterday (don’t ask!), the inevitable happened: I was asked what I do. I usually assume that Hoyle’s Rules of Bedside Manner require the…
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“Like Most Revelations” [by Richard Howard]
Like Most Revelations It is the movement that incites the form,discovered as a downward rapture–yes,it is the movement that delights the form,sustained by its own velocity. And yet it is the movement that delays…
