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Calling All Tattooed Poets: The Tattooed Poets Project 2015
Poet and editor Bruce Covey shows off his tiger tattoo. Since its inception in 2008, we have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for Tattoosday's…
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To Live Without Answers: Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Maboroshi [by Mari L’Esperance]
My sincere thanks to Stacey Harwood and BAP for inviting me to be a guest blogger this week. It’s been a process and an adventure to give focused consideration to each of my posts,…
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All Mixed Up [by Charles Coe]
I was clearing out my desk at home and stumbled over an old cassette tape—a dance mix that my friend and former housemate Lawrence Fine and I put together for our annual Halloween party.…
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“I am usually a decisive person, but . . . ” David Lehman on this week’s “Next Line, Please.”
Over at the American Scholar, David Lehman has been mid-wife (?) to a crowd-sourced sestina. The poem is nearly finished. Here's what he has to say about the sestina-to-date: I am usually a decisive person, but…
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Who? (by Mitch Sisskind)
Sixth grade, a new kid came, Fat kid, terrible at sports, But a genius, played the violin, And when we got math workbooks On the first day of sixth grade He finished the workbook…
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Tales of the Nineties: Give Me a Name [by Alan Ziegler]
Now retired from his laundry route but still working at the motel Saturdays and Sundays, my father goes to the racetrack almost every weekday—Aqueduct fall and winter, Belmont spring and summer. Some days he…
