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“Laura” [by David Lehman, with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney]
Then the doorbell rang.Time for one more cigarette.It wasn’t Laura’s body on the kitchen floor.He is not in love with a corpse. Time for one more cigarette.The venomous drama critic insinuatesHe is in love…
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“Summer Afternoon” [by David Shapiro]
I wrote a poem endorsing Henry James's view that"summer afternoon" was the sweetest phrase in the language and David Shapiro responded:with this riff. 10 / 25 / 08 Saturday Summer Afternoon For…
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Is you is or is you ain’t, my baby? [by Anita O’Day]
All you have to do is listen. .
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“Episode of Hands” [by Hart Crane]
Episode of Hands The unexpected interest made him flush. Suddenly he seemed to forget the pain,– Consented, — and held out One finger from the others. The gash was bleeding, and a shaft of…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Adam Clay and Meagan Cass of Shelterbelt Press
DD: How did Shelterbelt Press come into being? AC: Meagan and I were both teaching at the same university and we decided to form a press to be affiliated with the university so our…
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“Parlor Game for a Wet Afternoon” [by W. H. Auden]
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
