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Save the Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 – The Best American Poetry 2011 Launch Reading. 7 PM, Tishman Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street, NYC)*
Series Editor David Lehman and Guest Editor Kevin Young will be joined by John Ashbery, Cara Benson, Michael Cirelli, Michael Dickman, Farrah Field, Major Jackson, Jennifer Knox,Katha Pollitt, James Richardson, Patricia Smith, Gerald Stern,…
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“And yet the compensations of calamity. . .” [by DL]
When I am in distress for real or unfathomable causes, when the chaos outside threatens to overwhelm the precarious order within, when anxities surround me on all sides like an invading army closing in…
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Lear is an anagram for real [by DL]
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?…
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Took this picture, wrote this poem, thought of you, waiting for a storm [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
The Spider Spider, spider, spinning tight against the darkness of the night, what inspired geometry is wonder at your web from me? On…
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Towards an Iranian-American Reading List–Final Post by Guest Blogger Roger Sedarat
My thanks to David Lehman and Stacey Harwood for inviting me to guest blog for the week. My week of blogging concludes with a brief recommended bibliography of Iranian-American writing. Of course there is much…
