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  • Let Us Now Praise People We Want to Have Sex With [by Janice Erlbaum]

    September 13, 2023

    The praise poem was all the rage in certain circles in 1993. Kathy from Pussy Poets started it; she wrote a praise poem for Bobby Miller, and one for me, called “Mary Jane Girl.”…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: September 13, 2023

    September 13, 2023

    Ben Lerner’s The Lights was published September 5 by MacMillan. The poems contained therein are heady, energetic, and totally engaged with the now—our crisis as a nation and the world’s peril. Lerner contextualizes the…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: September 13, 2023

    September 13, 2023

    Ben Lerner’s The Lights was published September 5 by MacMillan. The poems contained therein are heady, energetic, and totally engaged with the now—our crisis as a nation and the world’s peril. Lerner contextualizes the…

    Continue reading…

  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Nine): Richard Stull [by Angela Ball]

    September 12, 2023

    COUNTRY MUSIC There’s really nothing to see inside. The austerity that once numbed the roomsDied of a fever and rotted in the shadows Of the few trees left on the lawn.You can stare through…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Nine): Richard Stull [by Angela Ball]

    September 12, 2023

    COUNTRY MUSIC There’s really nothing to see inside. The austerity that once numbed the roomsDied of a fever and rotted in the shadows Of the few trees left on the lawn.You can stare through…

    Continue reading…

  • Tuesday Limerick Quiz

    September 12, 2023

    <<< There was a young sultan of Kabir, a precocious lad who lacked a career, for though he was stuck-up he used all his skill to suck up and stick his rod in a…

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