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“Arthur Rimbaud” [a prose poem by Robert Fernandez]
A poet sobers up. A seer sits up. Sees a literary establishment. A mother. An order seamless as glass. Sees his enemy and says: let’s be honest. Says to the child: let’s be honest.…
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Asian American Writers Workshop Celebrates BAP 2020
This #PoetryTuesday we're partnering with @TheAALR and @SmithsonianAPA to share ten poems from BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2020, edited by @PaisleyRekdal. From 10 AM until 7 PM, we'll be sharing a poem every hour. Stay…
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The Great(est) Game [by John Emil Vincent]
In today's New York Times, a place I know we all rush for the latest and "greatest" in poetry criticism, David Orr asks, in "The Great(ness) Game, basically, what will happen when THE generation…
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Stacey’s “Guest Chair”
<<<After reading our post on painting fabric-covered furniture, Stacey Harwood sent us an email about her great “guest” chair. “I knew a white chair would not stay white for long in my NYC apartment so…
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Michael Donaghy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Shibboleth One didn’t know the name of Tarzan’s monkey. Another couldn’t strip the cellophane From a G.I.’s pack of cigarettes. By such minutiae were the…
