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  • Who’s Who on A. R. Ammons’s “Shit List” [by David Barber]

    July 10, 2023

    David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS   [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for…

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  • Old Nellie and the Big Spiders [by Mitch Sisskind]

    July 8, 2023

    Old Nellie and the Big Spiders After 4 July how quickly summer goes until Toward the end the big spiders come whom I love but more than love respect them for The web astonishments…

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  • A Man of Many Words, and Every One Mattered: Robert A. Gottlieb (1931-2023) [by Mindy Aloff]

    July 8, 2023

    Note: This is part two of a two-part essay on the late Robert Gottlieb (pictured left with his auithor Robert Caro). Part one appeared last Saturday July 1. Bob could read a booklength manuscript…

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  • Jim Whiteside: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 8, 2023

                                        _________________________________________________________ Eighth Grade   On Sundays we learn about the glorious mysteries. I picture God as…

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  • Untitled (The Hamburger Lounge) [by Mitch Sisskind]

    July 7, 2023

    The Hamburger Lounge? Yeats loved it there.Eliot, Crane, Whitman, Amy and Robert Lowell, When they wanted hamburgers, they knew where. The Golden Ox on Clybourn used to prepare A fine zwiebelfleisch, served with a roll; But the Hamburger…

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  • Announcing “The Best American Poetry 2023” — edited by Elaine Equi — coming Sept. 5

    July 7, 2023

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