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“Too Much Information” [by Tony Towle]
As we are sitting down to lunch,I observe that Poetry saved my life in 1960and ”might be doing so again at this very moment” —even though I wasn’t actually writing. While thatis being digested,…
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“There she is, the woman. . .” [by Jill Bialosky]
There she is, the woman who once inhabitedthese rooms, drank tea from this cup,her shape in the cushion, isn’t that hers?Those shelves filled with books from the bookshopsof her youth—Rilke, Plath Akhmatova, Stevens, Strand,afternoons…
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Stanley Moss Remembers Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, and Stanley Kunitz
<<<Hard years. I learned to disguise myself to earn a living. Wherever I went I carried my desperately thin production of poems and Wallace Stevens. I was sure Hitler was anti-satyr. I joined the…
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Bill Nevins: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo (detail) by Tony O’Hara _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ No Prisoners What can I say?We met in Santa Fe. She’s got everything she needs,She’s an artistAnd she knew John Berryman. Poets are worsethan lawyersshe saidworsethan mosquitoesLike those…
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Mitch Sisskind’s Collected Poems, 2005-2020
From the book, this poem, which we first posted on February 8, 2015: Balzac Speaks of Salvation Through Sexual Intercourse How else to keep alive the spiritOf sans souci, the flame of youth,But with sexual…
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Lt. Pete Campanelli, NYFD [photograph by Bill Hayward]
lt. pete campanelli, nyfd photo(c)Bill Hayward
