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On Poetry Hoaxes [by Rebecca Warner]
<<<"One of the two poems below is by a highly respected contemporary poet," wrote John Ashbery on an exam for MFA students at Brooklyn College. "The other is a hoax originally published to spoof…
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Vic Damone’s Breakout Hit (Al Martino sings it at Connie’s wedding)
Here's to you, Vito Farinola, on your birthday (June 12). "I Have But One Heart" was Vic Damone's breakout hit. Al Martino playing Johnny Fontaine sings it at Connie Corleone's wedding in The Godfather.…
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June 11 [by David Lehman]
It's my birthday I've got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go for a cool swim on a hot day with the trombone in Sinatra's "I've…
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Ben Jonson’s “My Picture Left in Scotland”
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight meAnd cast my love behind.I’m sure my language to…
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Judy Gemini Could Go On Singing [by David Lehman]
Judy Garland: The Road Gets Rougher Born to sing America’s all-time favorite movie song, Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland was as natural a Gemini as you will find…
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“My Bohemia” [by Arthur Rimbaud; trans. Bill Zavatsky]
I took off, fists in my torn pockets;Even my coat was becoming an idea;I went beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal;Oo-la-la did I dream some love affairs! My only pair of…
