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We Have Our First Winner! by Rachel Shukert
We have our first winner in the Write a Rhymed Poem About Your Disappointing Family Member Sweepstakes! Karen Bock contributed the following brilliant bit of doggerel: Dick, the Dick My pedophile brother, Richmade some…
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Nights on Planet Earth, by Campbell McGrath
Video by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, filmmaker Leita Luchetti, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's docUWM media center. Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.
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Frank O’Hara writes a letter to Larry Rivers
The letter is dated June 27, 1953: <<<Someone who didn't like me could say, "Sure, all you have to do is show him Larry Rivers or the sea, and out comes a poem;" but…
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My Favorite Buckley by Rachel Shukert
I couldn't let this post at We Who Are About To Die go by without posting in response my own personal William F. Buckley clip, which might actually be close to my favorite moment…
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The Wall (Street) of Worry: What To Do With Your Money Now
We received a recent inquiry from a poet wondering how to invest a small inheritance she received on the death of her father and stepmother in a car accident last winter. The sum was…
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“A Place” by Robert Schultz / “Ancestral Altar” by Binh Danh
A PLACE He makes altars for the lost, a placeTo pray and to question the dead.He makes portraits out of sun and leaves. To pray and to question the dead,I sit before ancestral altars.They…
