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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Aracelis Girmay
Keeping Faith Alive, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2008-2009, Poli Marichal & When We Woke by Aracelis Girmay It rained all night. It did not rain.I strapped my life to a buoy—&…
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Epigraph of the Month: Why Art? [by David Lehman]
<< We have Artin order that we may not perish from Truth. — F. W.…
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Chattanooga Choo-Choo (All Aboard)
On March 1st were born the Broadway actress Monique Fowler, the late Richard Wilbur, the brilliant business executive Louis Gerstner, savior of IBM back when it was teetering on the brink of the abyss…
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“Perky Cuties I Had a Crush On”: Movies and Beauty [by Mark Strand]
8 / 26 / 09 Dear David Pursuant to our conversation of the other night, the one in which we discussed what various movie stars meant to us, I have decided to write not…
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Bill Knott Says Goodbye
Goodbye If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black. — Bill Knott
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Next Line, Please: Honor Role and a Special Announcement [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's prompt centers on a mix between the homophone and the Freudian slip: create a poem titled "Honor Role" incorporating less of rhyme and more of mix-ups. Words with double meanings, such as…
