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BAP 2025 gets its first review — and it’s a knockout
The Best American Poetry 2025 Series Editor: David Lehman; Guest Editor: Terence Winch Our review: No need to include a publisher’s description this time — the title says it all. As you might guess, this…
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“The Span of Life” [by Robert Frost]
The Span of Life The old dog barks backwards without getting up.I can remember when he was a pup. — Robert Frost
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The Bi-Lingual Mitch Sisskind: The Old Grumpus Wumpus
The Old Grumpus Wumpus They called him the old grumpus wumpusBut why? Why? Can you please explain thatTo me? Would you be so kind? Did I missSomething? I must have missed somethingBecause…
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The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Five: Jennifer Polson Peterson [by Angela Ball]
REMAIN Mornings fell on neighborhoods turned white grids of ash; the odd surviving objects like antiquities—a dish intact, a child’s toy—became remarkable. It was a year of fire in wine country. Another year…
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David Yezzi on Ashbery’s Norton Lectures (delivered at Harvard)
David Yezzi, in his New Criterion review of Ashbery's Other Traditions notes Ashbery's skepticism about his own projects and compliments JA's "lucid and charming" prose. Ashbery's memory was prodigious and he spent much time…
