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  • Marsh Hawk Press: The New Issue

    May 13, 2023

            You Are Invited to Explore   Marsh Hawk Press Review for Spring 2023   Poetry | Paintings | Prose   POETRY by: NATSUKO HIRATA DAVID LEHMAN CYNTHIA HOGUE JOHN YAU MARY…

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  • Violoncello [Dovid Hofshteyn – Trans. by Lera Auerbach]

    May 12, 2023

    Dovid Hofshteyn (1889-1952) left Russia during the years of war and revolution and was a pioneer of modernist literature in Yiddish after the First World War. He returned to the USSR in the mid-1920s…

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  • Squibs 503-505 [by Alan Ziegler]

    May 12, 2023

    503: Remembering Murray the K  1960s and 70s Radio disc jockey, real name Murray Kaufman; dubbed the fifth Beatle by either George, Ringo, or himself; played love songs for couples in cars watching the…

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  • His Critical Condition: On F. R. Leavis [by David Lehman]

    May 11, 2023

    In literary criticism, we remember the great practitioners by their errors and blind spots. Samuel Johnson dismissed Milton’s “Lycidas” — perhaps the greatest elegy in English literature — as artificial and insincere. T. S.…

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  • “Mother Died Today” [by David Lehman]

    May 10, 2023

    Mother Died Today Mother died today. That's how it began. Or maybe yesterday, I can't be sure. I gave the book to my mother in the hospital. She read the first sentence. Mother died…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 10, 2023

    May 10, 2023

    In March, Todd Boss launched his podcast THERE'S A POEM IN THAT. Unlike Cheryl Strayed’s "Dear Sugar" advice column on The Rumpus, or Rick Moody’s “Life Coach” column on Literary Hub, Boss’s podcast does not…

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