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The New York School Diaspora (Part Six): The News in Sports [by Angela Ball]
Mississippi State’s Football Coach Ponders the Fake People in the Stands –for and after Mike Leach I have to be honest. I haven’t really gottenthe cut-out people in the stands,the cardboard torsospretending to be…
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“112th Street” [by James Longenbach]
112th Street If only once, if ever you have the chance,You should climb a volcano. The hermitage at basecamp, the glasses of brandy—That’s the past. Who wants to think about the past? You want to push…
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“Summer Afternoon” [by David Shapiro]
For DCLehman just feeling happy James’s words you love Today was unbear-ably beautiful like abear walking thru school! Today was amaz-ingly cool and calm like fishrushing to the knife! today the sun hitthe bricks…
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Emily Dickinson 2 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Preoccupied by photography ever since That absurd daguerreotype image of her Appeared in 1847 she presents herself Several times a week at the sidewalk Booth of Amherst's tintype photographer Always in one or another of…
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“To Summer” (a sonnet) [by David Lehman]
Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body like a violin?Summer is the reason for my grin,and on that violin I would play. In the nave of her church I…
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Wang Ping: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Wang Ping on the rooftop of Rudy Burckhardt's apartment building in NYC. Photo by Rudy…
