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On the First of May [by Rodgers & Hart; with Mel Torme]
Simple cooking means / More than French cuisines. / I've a banquet planned, which is / Sandwiches / and beans. / Coffee's just as grand, / with a little sand. / Eat and you'll…
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Two Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
'Hello, I'm an Intellectual' No woman will or could resistThis disarming introductionWhich, in contradistinction to Banal so-called pickup lines, Offers a frisson of brain buzzAs a kind of appetizer for thePolymorphous feast of prandial And potable invigorations…
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Ted Berrigan [by Mitch Sisskind]
Today in an email to a friend I confused Richard Friedman of Chicago with Ben Weissman of Los Angeles — the former was generalissimo of the poetry scene in the Windy City in the…
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“Two Byrons” [by David Yezzi]
OK, it has been a day from hell–two days from hell, in fact. I don't know about you, but taxes were completely brutal this year. I envy you, if you are one of those…
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Joel Allegretti, David Lehman, and Geoffrey Nutter at Tannat (Sunday 4/28 at 3 PM)
Joel Allegretti, David Lehman, and Geoffrey Nutter are reading their poems in the Razor Blade reading series at Tannat Wine & Cheese, 4736 Broadway/Thayer, 3 p.m., Sunday, April 28, 2019 Take the A train…
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“Fake News” [poem by David Lehman]
From David Lehman's latest collection, Playlist University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
