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Thanks for the Good Times [by Reb Livingston]
My week of guest blogging comes to a close. I had a lot of fun interviewing poets and sharing poet dreams. During this week I dreamed of four poets already included in my Dream…
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Abe says man you must be puttin me on
Abe says man you must be puttin me on God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man you must be puttin’ me on" Compare to "Take now thy son, thine only…
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Slumming in Stockholm [by Ming Holden]
The Mongolian-based Luce Scholar Ming Holden attended the first-ever “Writers and Literary Translators International Congress” in Stockholnm and took notes in the form of quotations from the speakers. She transcribed them with the intent…
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The Kalashnikover Rebbe: “Why do the righteous suffer?”
This is the first video I made and the lighting is terrible. I look like Prune Face! However, I am going to suppress my vanity and post this clip because it does impart an…
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The Collinses of Summer versus the Spirits of December
<< Had it been summer they would have gone out together and indolently sipped two long Tom Collinses, as they wilted their collars and watched the faintly diverting round of some lazy August cabaret.…
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“America’s Busiest Poet” (by Sarah Fay)
For Time Magazine’s blog, Sarah Fay interviewed laureates former, recent, and new to get a handle on what Kay Ryan’s life will be like as US Poet Laureate. America’s Busiest Poet by Sarah Fay…
