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Do Male Poets Have Crushes on Female Poems? [by David Lehman]
Do male poets have crushes on female poems? Maybe, but the reverse is also true, and the old canard that male poetry editors like it when the women talk dirty implies bad faith…
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Paris Massascre, suite 2: Hearts must break [by Tracy Danison]
As news of the of the Friday, November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris spread, a friend wrote me that she “was heart broken”. Another wrote, “Those crazy bastards!”. I was inclined to agree with…
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Our Vegetable Love
photo (c) Stacey Lehman To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell, 1621 – 1678 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way…
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Circling (by Karen Steinmetz)
Mountains and Lake by Georgia O'Keefe On a visit to Shelter Island last summer, I discovered Black Cat Books, a treasure-trove of used books and a great place to get out of the midday…
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Burden of Dreams (by Karen Steinmetz)
I took the title “Burden of Dreams” from Les Blank’s film about the astounding lengths Werner Herzog and his crew went to in the filming of “Fitzcarraldo.” In order to make his documentary, Blank…
