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Next Line, Please: Get Hurt—or Go Back to Work [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week we wrote poems culminating in one of following lines: “No one was supposed to get hurt.” “And then he [or she/ I] went back to work as if nothing had happened.” The…
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Summer Camp Quiz [by David Lehman]
1) Bug juice is a) an experiment conducted by the nature counselorb) insect repellent for canoe tripsc) the fruit drink that is served at mealsd) none of the above 2) The song beginning "Great…
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On Frank O’Hara’s Death [by David Lehman]
The critic says FOH was smart to die at fortybecause “Death is often a good career move in poetry” as if he committed suicidewhen all he did watch the tide drunk as in a…
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Summer of 1969 and the Mets [by Greg Pattenaude}
1969. A year filled with rich history. This morning I watched a replay, in real time, of Apollo 11 lifting off for the moon at 9:32 am Eastern Daylight Time. Fifty years ago, I…
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Elaine Equi equals everyday euphoria [by David Lehman]
For Elaine Equi on July 24, 2017 I know it's your birthdayon the fifth floor of the buildingwhere both of us workalthough we're not there nowwe were there whenyou told me the twenty-fourthof July…
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The Met Percent: Week Two [by Alec Bernstein]
Almost a Face Faces are distant, a bit melancholy, with a youthful, somewhat automatic beauty”. Egyptian art, gallery 121, MetText This is the beginning of semi-circular eyes. Semi is sufficient, more than sufficient in…
