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“My Picture Left in Scotland” [by Ben Jonson, with comments by David Lehman]
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) wrote, to bend one of his own formulations, not for a time but for the ages. England's first poet laureate, the acknowledged leader of the "tribe of Ben," the most melodious…
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Props to Poetry at the Gramercy Tavern by Stacey Harwood
You just can’t get a bad meal at the Gramercy Tavern on East 20th Street in New York City: The food is inspired, the atmosphere warm, the service consistently attentive without being obsequious. A…
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On Not Knowing with Ron and Sandra (by Jenny Factor)
I know you're probably not local to Los Angeles, but I wish you could come out to hear two of my literary heroes, Sandra M. Gilbert and Ron Carlson read at Vroman's Bookstore in…
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God’s Optimism in April (by Jenny Factor)
At the AWP conference in Chicago, I attended a panel–the first panel of the first morning–on contemporary Jewish poetry. There was a lot of genius at that table, and an adorable baby in the…
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NaPoWriMo Day #12
Cruising around the blogs this evening, I found some sites on the NaPoWriMo list that didn’t have any poems at all, some of which were very cool, like this flog, this flog, and this…
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On Reading Part II: Reader’s Block (by Jenny Factor)
One of my writing friends asked me a week ago whether I'd ever heard of a problem where writing is going fine, but all of a sudden,…
