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Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”: A Multiple Translation Project [by Alicia Ostriker and friends]
A POEM THAT MADE SOMETHING HAPPEN–NOW IN MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS If you want to refute W.H. Auden's assertion that "poetry makes nothing happen," all you really need is one poem: Emma Lazarus' sonnet "The…
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10 Poems from DIALOGIST
I have been the poetry editor at DIALOGIST since 2016. Working with Michael Loruss, the founder and managing editor, over the past several years has been one of the great lights in my life…
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Big Daddy Lipscomb Three Sonnets (by Mitch Sisskind)
Big Daddy didn't play any college ball The Marine Corps was pretty much all The experience he had on defensive line Till he joined the Rams and then signed With the Colts in '56…
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Nabokov’s Superman Poem [by Vladimir Nabokov, June 1942]
Vladimir Nabokov's poem about "Superman of the Funnies," written in June 1942, has surfaced and been published in London's Times Literary Supplement. Nabokov sent the poem to The New Yorker, whose poetry editor, Charles…
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“I Love Sex in All its Forms” [poem by Denise Duhamel]
When Denise Duhamel checked her spam folder for the first time in years, she found that so many women, mistaking her for a heterosexual man, had been leaving her messages. When she saw the…
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“I’m a very average person. ..” [by David Lehman]
April 21 [1998] "Iām a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two kids, a boy and a girl. Last Sunday I played golf…
