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“When I Heard the Learn’d Urologist” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Where were you when televisions Multiplied in American homes And pastel-colored cars had fins On which at least once a boy Chasing a ball stabbed himself And the fins, like kings, died out? I…
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“Smoking in Heaven” [by Robert Hass]
Watching young poets in the early eveningSmoking on the terrace outside the poetry reading,I wondered if there would be a smoking terraceIn heaven. I have a friend, dead now,A Catholic who was unimpressed by…
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Happy Birthday Jacques d’Amboise [by Alastair Macaulay]
Jacques d'Amboise, during an interview with former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, 2016. Find the interview on YouTube here. July 28, 2020 – The happiest of birthdays to wonderful Jacques d’Amboise, eighty-six…
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Poem Beginning with a Line after Yehuda Amichai [by Didi Jackson]
Past the window in the room where we make lovewaves follow one another like lines of laundryas the cliffs unfold, spilling like bolts of cloth into the bay,and it is the anise, they say,…
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Archie Ammons and friends at the launch reading of BAP 1994
from left to right, A. R. Ammons, James McManus, James Cummins, A. E. Stallings, Angela Shaw. The reading was sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, William Wadsworth executive director. The Academy sponsored the…
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Happy Birthday, John Ashbery (with a collage and a poem from the maestro, 1927-2017)
Wet Casements When Edward Raban, coming along the passage, walked into the open doorway, he saw that it was raining. It was not raining much. …
