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  • How are you, Ron Padgett?

    October 14, 2020

    "Tea for You, Too" by Ron Padgett: Ron Padgett's poem "Tea for You, Too" appears in Together in a Sudden Strangeness: American Poets Respond to the Pandemic, edited by Alice Quinn and published by…

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  • “Homage to Bashō” [7 Haiku by David Lehman]

    October 13, 2020

    Leaves that left the treesare litter now on the groundin orange and yellow. This, and six other haiku, are in the November 2020 issue of The Atlantic under the title "Homage to Bashō." Please…

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  • Uccello’s Battle in Aspic [by Clark Coolidge]

    October 13, 2020

    An ant has landed in the distance, as I tryto realize the swords as bumbershoots fallentracked around under the horses placed, and beneaththere are giant cracks in lace.  The hook cap of a catleft…

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  • Anonymous Poet [by Stanley Moss]

    October 12, 2020

    Sometimes I would see her with her loverswalking through the Village, the windstrapped about her ankles.Simply being, she foughtagainst the enemies of love and poetrylike Achilles in wrath.Her tongue was not a lake,but it…

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  • A Monday Morning Cartoon [by Nin Andrews]https://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00e54fe4158b883300e54ff804ab8834/post/compose

    October 12, 2020

    from the archive; first posted March 25, 2013

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  • “Odd Man Out”: the Belfast Noir [by David Lehman]

    October 9, 2020

    <<<British director Carol Reed turned out three masterpieces in the late 1940s. With an exemplary performance from Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol (1948) does justice to Graham Greene’s brilliant story “The Basement Room.” The Third Man (1949),…

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