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Letter to Harwood and Lehman from Livingston
Bill Hayward writes to us from big sky country. He adds that the text accompanying the photo is from "the big timber police report in the big timber paper…that is in big timber, montana.…
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Bruce Covey presents Anne Boyer
This week’s BAP poem from Coconut marks the fourth appearance for Anne Boyer’s “You Will Want Like Cowboys”: 1. In Coconut 4; 2. In Best of the Net 2006; and 3. In her 2008…
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Also…[by Rachel Shukert]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to screen the film You Don’t Mess With the Zohan in a theater full of Dutch and Germans. The experience was every bit as discomfiting as it sounds. I…
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Another Day, Another 5000 meters [by Rachel Shukert]
Another day, another marathon Olympics watching session (I guess we won’t be able to say that much longer.) The Dutch press are making a very big deal about Tia Hellebaut, the 6 foot tall…
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Ricks on Dylan
I've been reading Christopher Ricks's book on Bob Dylan's lyrics, and I wonder how Dylan aficionados feel about it and especially about the discrepancy between style of critic and style of songwriter. Ricks is…
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Robert Byrd: our most (or only) poetic Senator
Few contemporary politicians have any real feeling for poetry. There are some exceptions. Clinton gave Monica a copy of Leaves of Grass. And here the Senator from West Virgina recites: The following could have…
