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Tonight at KGB Bar, NYC: David Lehman and Stephanie Brown
We've featured Stephanie Brown's prose and poetry here so often over the years that we've given her her own category. One of our most popular posts continues to be Sex in the Stacks, her piece…
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“Ode to the Other Woman’s Ass” [by Denise Duhamel]
You have occupied my husband’s imaginationwhen he otherwise might have been bored. You gave him pretty shapes to beholdat the mall, in the supermarket, when he peeredfrom behind his Newsweek at the airport.Oh thong-wearer,…
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Nothing else would matter in the world today . . .
I first heard this song two weeks ago while watching a certain period drama series and now I can't get it out of my head. Here's a clip of the same song being sung…
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Spring of February First [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, The sun came out today. Blue sky and small white clouds. I don’t care, being human is such a poke in the eye. I throw myself out there though and I’m…
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If it’s February, it must be Gertrude and Alice [by Stacey Harwood]
For the past several years, I've been buying the Studio Hinrichs 365 Typography Calendar from Ken Night Design. The supersize version is worth the price because when it's mounted on the inside of the front…
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Blackfish Creek by Robert Baird
To see it up like that, unbreeched and unbegun, now peremptory in its dominion, now aching over ours. The wind calls through the baffles of the tidal sway: O rasp! O beggar! O children…
