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Happy 30th Birthday Best American Poetry!
On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at 7 PM, Poet's House will host an all-star cast to honor the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of The Best American Poetry annual anthology. Featuring former guest editors: Mark Doty, ed. BAP 2012 Terrance…
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On Kenneth Koch [by David Shapiro]
What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget! I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I rarely dance."…
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“Notes on the Final Four” [by Dean Smith]
Part 1: The Cavalier Curse The first week of the NCAA basketball tournament is my favorite time of the year. I’ve always been addicted to the possibility of a Cinderella story and this year…
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Erin & Linda Reagan Update(s): Will Erin Date Again? [by Walter Carey]
Editor's note: Walter Carey writes: "David Huntley, my source for this story, is the pseudonym of an executive at CBS who asked that he or she not be named. — WC." See our earlier dispatch of…
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Farewell Le Grande Orange [by Greg Pattenaude]
Today's opening day of the 2018 baseball season, usually a day of eternal optimism, had a shadow of melancholy with the passing of the great Rusty Staub. Rusty is the only player to have…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Lory Bedikian
Sestina, as my mother cooks by Lory Bedikian I tell her it’s a problem of the nerve.She doesn’t look up, but eases a scaron each small olive, making roomfor the marinade to soak in.…
