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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Valerie Martinez [by Emma Trelles]
Birds in Field – Mound Bayou, by Brandon Thibodeaux from A HUNDRED LITTLE MOUTHS by Valerie Martinez –1– from up above: lewh, whist, stlew, ist, histle, and so it is with…
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Eleanor Goodman, Guest Author October 24-28
This week we welcome back Eleanor Goodman as our guest author. Eleanor is a Research Associate at the Harvard University Fairbank Center, and spent a year at Peking University on a Fulbright Fellowship. She…
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Cubs Win Big on Bro’s Birthday [for Mitch Sisskind]
Happy birthday Mitch We did it for you We beat the glamorous Giants and dogged Dodgers, which Is a pretty big fucking deal and we did it for you On your birthday because you…
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Tales of the Sixties: Allen Ginsberg’s Three Days in Schenectady [by Alan Ziegler]
Prologue: In late 1967, an English professor asked me to be Allen Ginsberg’s escort for his February 13 reading at Union College: “I think he’d be more comfortable with a student.” I wrote Ginsberg to…
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Sandy and Friends Say Good Luck to the Cubs and Indians [by David Lehman]
Special to The Best American Poetry blog After the Dodgers were eliminated last night in the "friendly confines" of Wrigley Field in Chicago, where the Cubs under Theo Epstein's executive management triumphed 5-0, an emergency…
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Scientists confirm human feline ancestry but President tight-lipped as Assembly radicals press for replacement action [by Paul Tracy Danison]
Secretary Mimi, caught by a security camera, hurrying away after her ‘secret speech’ to the Intergalactic Interspecies Assembly in the Paris Catacombs last Friday. In the background, long-time “good friend” and companion, Assembly…
