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Next Line, Please: Title Precedes Text [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week on Next Line, Please, quizmaster Lehman provides a new prompt for NLP regulars to try out. For this prompt, let's start with on of these two titles: “Occupational Hazards” and “Barroom Brawl.”…
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Thursday, November 15, 6:00 PM: An Evening with the Poets of Sage House
Cheryl Quimba, Ange Romeo-Hall, Dean Smith, & Carmen Torrado Gonzalez with David Lehman Thursday November 15 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM Buffalo Street BooksThe Dewitt Mall215 North Cayuga StreetIthaca, New York 14850 Spend an evening with the poets of…
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“32 Titles for Bad Poems” [by David Lehman]
Thirty-Two Titles for Bad Poems Epistle to the Guggenheim Foundation Everyone Was Chill Sincere Voyeurism Ode to the West Wing Why Women Matter At the Grave of Mel Gibson Ode to My Vacuum Cleaner…
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Doug Lang reading “Pandaemonium Sonnet” (Terence Winch)
Last Thursday (8 Nov 2018), while visiting my friend Doug Lang, the great Welsh/American poet, at his studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, the subject of movies about poets came up. We discussed…
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“Retronym time” from “Time Pieces” [by Rachel Wetzsteon]
Retronym time Cheering: it was done.But soon the Great War would berenamed World War One. — from "Time Pieces" by Rachel Wetzsteon "Time Pieces" first appeared in The New Criterion and was selected by Kevin Young…
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Ron Padgett on Apollinaire (an excerpt)
Here is an excerpt from Ron Padgett's essay, "A Few Things about Apollinaire and Me." The occasion for this essay was the publication, by New York Review Books, of Ron's long-awaited translation of Guillaume…