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Yehuda Amichai, From an interview with Lawrence Joseph (1992) and a Poem (“Memorial Day for the War Dead”)
Lawrence Joseph interviewed the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai for The Paris Review, Spring 1992. Amichai was born in Germany in 1924. With his family he fled from Hitler in 1936, emigrating to Palestine with…
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Crocus & Daffodil welcome you to Clare College
What you see when you approach the gate at Clare College, Cambridge, in March: The vew of the bridge and the old court in the near green future:
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“The Other Sestina” [by Janice Erlbaum]
Janice Erlbaum participated in the group reading we did for "The Best American Erotic Poems" at KGB Bar on March 10. 2008. She read her sestina ("The Temp") from the book, but time constraints…
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Happy Birthday Ern Malley! [With an introduction by Thomas Moody taken from David Lehman]
Yesterday marked the 105th birthday of Ern Malley, who remains one of Australia’s most internationally renowned poets and our greatest ever literary hoax. After I disclosed that I'm Australian in our first ever email…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 15, 2023
I’ve never read anything quite like the poems in Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle which is published today by Curbstone books. I’ve never read anything quite like their poems and that is a good thing…
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I Love Me, Vol. I [by Lewis Saul]
I LOVE ME, VOL. I Pull up.Was it a hat I saw?No, it is open on one position. Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?Do not refer…
