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  • Saperlipopette! Nearly already September and still no deeds! [By Tracy Danison]

    July 11, 2025

    Si l’art est partout, il est aussi dans cette boîte (“If art is everywhere, it is also in this box”) by BEN. Photo © Ben Vautier, Adagp, Paris 2025 “So I bunged the thing…

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  • “shoelace” [by Andrei Codrescu]

    July 9, 2025

    a real concern may turn out in a dream as “to be continued”or make you sleep soundly for being common currencysplintering off café tables where free-lance shrinkskeep office spreading patter butter out of which…

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  • Lehman Gets Good News

    July 8, 2025

    July 8, 2025 David Lehman wins the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize by the Editors Criterion Books will publish Ithaca in the winter of 2026. The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman…

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  • “The Questions of Postmodernism” — Great Poems of the World, episode 21, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind

    July 8, 2025

     

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  • The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Four: Mitch Sisskind [by Angela Ball]

    July 8, 2025

    Two Poems After Koch 1. If you want to write a love poem don’t sayYour girlfriend smells like a new car butMaybe you could say, ‘I love you like I love‘The smell of a…

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  • “The List of Famous Hats” [by James Tate, 1943 – July 8, 2015]

    July 8, 2025

    The List of Famous Hats Napoleon’s hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famoushat, but that’s not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat forshow. I am…

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