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  • After Koch 3 (by Mitch Sisskind)

    July 26, 2018

    At first he was Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers But he kept on doing it and by the end he was in The Library of America – two volumes, mind you. “Here…

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  • It Happens Once a Year: Elaine Equi wins the Daily Double

    July 24, 2018

    Invocation Come Inspiration, sweet as two beautiful hookersin a dream.Don't go girls — even if you don't know a thingabout poetry, at least help me decidewhat to wear — Elaine Equi (whose birthday is…

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  • After Koch 2 (by Mitch Sisskind)

    July 24, 2018

    There was a day I mused to the class How making love with Queen Elizabeth Would be interesting – surely at Columbia I was the only professor who thusly mused And I often mused,…

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  • What were you expecting, Professor Koch? (by Mitch Sisskind)

    July 22, 2018

    What did you think was going happen, anyway? Don’t say you were never warned! Old Herrick’s “Live here blitheful while ye may” gets the message Across, or how about this one: “The worms crawl…

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  • Footnoose and Fancy Free [by Jennifer L. Knox]

    July 20, 2018

    We spent most of the afternoon in the shallow end floating around drunk. We grabbed people, lit off fireworks and pointed them at the people we’d grabbed. We riffled through drawers, broke a strand…

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  • New School After Hours at KGB Bar

    July 20, 2018

    The New School After Hours on July 20th, 2018 Come one, come all, to the hippest literary scene in the East Village!Hosted by Virginia Valenzuela Every third Friday of the month, New Schoolers new…

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