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  • The Day that Kennedy was Killed [by David Lehman]

    November 22, 2023

    The day that Kennedy was killed    Was the day before the Stuyvesant-Clinton football game.    There was a rally in the auditorium    And our coach who was from Texas or Oklahoma said…

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  • The Poetics of Distraction [by Jerome Sala]

    November 22, 2023

    Studying the rise of the novel, the distinguished scholar Franco Moretti wonders how people managed to read so many of them. He points out that though the numbers of readers in Western Europe roughly…

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  • The Poetics of Distraction [by Jerome Sala]

    November 22, 2023

    Studying the rise of the novel, the distinguished scholar Franco Moretti wonders how people managed to read so many of them. He points out that though the numbers of readers in Western Europe roughly…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: November 22, 2023

    November 22, 2023

    For today’s post, I offer Jessica L. Walsh’s fiercely punk poem from her debut collection Books of Gods & Grudges, published in 2022 by Glass Lyre Press. WHEN MY DAUGHTER TELLS ME I WAS…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: November 22, 2023

    November 22, 2023

    For today’s post, I offer Jessica L. Walsh’s fiercely punk poem from her debut collection Books of Gods & Grudges, published in 2022 by Glass Lyre Press. WHEN MY DAUGHTER TELLS ME I WAS…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Three): Rebecca Morgan Frank [by Angela Ball]

    November 21, 2023

    The Grande Dame And I thought, clarity.I thought mark and force,I thought the green canopy. I thought you, out therepushing against the door-knobs as if that couldmake them turn, slammingyour body against wallsas if…

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