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“French Movie” [poem by David Lehman, movie by Scott Wenner]
Scott Wenner made this terrific movie of David Lehman's poem "French Movie" for Motionpoems in Fall 2011. French Movie I was in a French movieand had only nine hours to liveand I knew itnot…
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On His 75th Birthday
Oh, on summer mornings darting through The county club's immense parking lot of Antique cars restored with great affection Or perfectly preserved: reds, greens, yellows, As if snatched from the nearby flower beds,And here the thwack of a struck tennis ballWas…
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“The Magnificent Seven” [by Elaine Equi]
The Seven Sages – a time-traveling band of philosophersappearing in ancient China, India, and Greece. The Seven Senses from which the Self must be emancipated. The Seven Dwarves — domesticated and Disney-fied into cuteness.Bashful…
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from “Vertical Poetry” by Roberto Juarroz [trans. by W. S. Merwin]
Every word is a doubt, every silence another doubt. However, the intertwining of both lets us breathe. All sleeping is a sinking down, all waking another sinking. However, the intertwining of both lets…
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Marsh Hawk Press Announces Its 2021 Book Contest
October 2020 David Lehman to Judge the 2021 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes Read about him here. Available Now: Where Did Poetry Come From by Geoffrey O'Brien "A remarkable book: nothing has…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Double-Bill Rerun [by Alan Ziegler]
Sacha Baron Cohen can currently be seen as Borat in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America…" and as Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7, so I am rerunning my encounter with Baron Cohen (in…
