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“Letters to Dead Editors” [by Tom Disch]
On July 1, 2008, at 11:16AM, Tom Disch revealed God's "other" Big Idea of the day. He called it "Letters to Dead Editors." <<<Another were-there-but-world-enough theme anthology. It was to have been a whole…
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Splash, splash [by Mitch Sisskind]
When I told Joe about how Sam Giancana Punched Sammy Davis Jr. in the stomach At Frank Sinatra's house Joe looked at me And said, "I am like a frog that's been sitting "Quietly…
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“In night when colors all to black are cast”: Fulke Greville’s Great Sonnet
In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight, Gives…
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“Thursday” [by Mark Ford]
When I began writing poetry many moons ago, for some reason I deemed allusions infra dig, unbecoming. I suppose like all young poets I wanted my stuff to be anti-academic, to be a breath…
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Poets and Jobs [by John Foy]
All jobs seem real to the people who have them, but poets like to make distinctions. They refer typically to “real” jobs when talking about employment outside of academia (illogical though that may be).…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty): Dean Young [by Angela Ball]
Chaos Magic for Beginners Don’t we all love when the announcergets choked up? When the roller coastergets stuck, that an octopus can eatone of its own hearts when stressed enough and aren’t we all?…
