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Never Be Afraid To Try Something New (by Laura Orem)
from Idiot's Delight (1939). That's Clark Gable dancing and Norma Shearer with the phony Russian accent.
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Tonight at KGB Bar
Monday Night Poetry Season Finale! Featuring: Matthew Lippman & Susan WheelerMay 17th at 7:30pm KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street Matthew Lippman's first book, The New Year of Yellow, won the Kathryn A. Morton…
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The Greatest Porn Star in American Poetry
It could happen only in New York. I had planned this headline in a shameless attempt to increase our online traffic. It would catch the reader's eye and then I could talk all…
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Psst…Poetry Brothel Tonight [rogue post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, What did we really learn from Eliot? I mean, we learned a tome, but all of it was wrong. So what singular gem that holds up did he leave us embroidered in…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Shane McCrae
In No Place And we divorced in any anyhow / But sudden anyhow but hurry we / Divorced in sudden hurry the affair / Become the main thing don't want to…
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Is Designing for Poetry Like Dancing for Architecture? VI Charlie Orr—guest blogger
On Wednesday's post I said that the name Shanna Compton would be coming up a lot in my posts. I went back and counted, and there have been a total of 16 mentions including…
