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Funny Lady #3: Swedishly Massaging Kung Fu Panda with Sharon Mesmer
If you’ve never attended a Flarf reading, picture a giant, glistening squid, hunched over the steering wheel of demolition derby jalopy, doing doughnuts around a junior high school football field at midnight. In cough…
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The Most Underrated Poet in America
<<< I remember a poet's writing to me several years back, You are the most underrated poet in the country. But then, he added, that's better than being the most overrated poet in the…
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This just in . . .Call for Submissions (No Fee): One Act Verse Play
Poet and playwright Alice Shapiro writes to tell us about the upcoming Turner Cassity Literary Festival and to encourage verse writers to enter the festival's playwrighting competition: A One-Act Verse Play (30 minutes or…
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Funny Women #2: Melissa Broder, Peach Schnapps and a Basement
For many women, getting people to laugh means getting people to laugh at them. It’s not all masochism. By positioning yourself lower than your reader—which can be accomplished by strolling onto the page wearing…
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“Mad Men” Update: The Hebrew Blessing [by David Lehman]
Ben Feldman as Michael Ginsberg On Mad Men last evening, the new Jewish copywriter comes home, bringing groceries (like farmer's cheese, oy vay), and there's his Papa, tall, with a thick accent, a refugee…
