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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty): Dara Wier [by Angela Ball]
95% of Thoroughbred Horses Descend from Eclipse I’m walking slowly the way trees walk. I’m letting my branches slip over steaming coastline. My bucket, my stick, my good boots. My eyelids shoot out…
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Benjamin Garcia: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Le Daría Mis Pulmones Toward the end, she could only lift a cup of…
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A Question from Emily Dickinson [by David Lehman]
I have a great fondness for two-line poems. Robert Frost's poem "The Span of Life" is a perfect couplet, enacting the life of a dog as if in a diptych representing youth and old…
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Yeats & Paul Violi
<< Last evening, when listening to Paul Violi's friends and colleagues and students and admirers read his poems, I thought of the last two lines of Yeats's "The Municipal Gallery Revisited," and recited them…
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Athena Sonnets (by Mitch Sisskind)
'What are words that you hate, Athena,'And what are the words that you love?'Until now I had never called her AthenaBut here was born…
