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  • “B-Flat Elegy” [by Stanley Moss]

    May 9, 2022

    Stanley tells us he wrote this poem as an elegy for Richard Howard. "The poem is not a home run, it's a bunt, and I'm running as fast as I can to first base."…

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  • A Conversation with Dante Di Stefano, Part 3 [by Nin Andrews and Amanda Rabaduex]

    May 8, 2022

    NA: You said in the first part of this interview series that you collaborate with your wife on community poetry projects through the Tioga Arts Council in upstate New York, which she runs. And…

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  • Five years on: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last evening [by David Lehman]

    May 8, 2022

      What a pleasureto read withJerome Sala andmy old Columbiaand Clare colleges’chum, David Shapiro,at the ZincBar last evening. Jerome read first.His corporate sonnetsreflect years oflabor that Marxwould characterize asalienated in thetall tower ofTime and…

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  • On Memorization [by Lauren Hilger]

    May 8, 2022

    As I write to you, in the year 2022, we don’t have to memorize much: GPS leads the way, phone numbers are saved, and devices alert us of birthdays. Say what you will about…

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  • Lauren Hilger, Guest Author May 8-12

    May 8, 2022

    This week we welcome Lauren Hilger as our guest author. Lauren is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016) and Morality Play (Poetry NW Editions, Summer 2022). Named a Nadya Aisenberg Fellow in…

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  • Mary Ruefle: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    May 8, 2022

                                          Mary Ruefle, photo by Hannah Ensor, 2017 _____________________________________________________________________ Little Stream   My heart was bright…

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