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Multiple Choice (by David Lehman)
The multiple-choice exam as an ad hoc poetic form attracted me even before I saw the clever and funny things John Ashbery did with it. My Freud Quiz is as much an homage to…
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Nothing Beats the Martini [by DL]
A "dark and stormy"(ginger beer and rum)does excellent things for some.Try it the next time you go off your diet.You'll see. But nothing beats a Martini.No, nothing beats a Martini. Informed imbibers agreethat a…
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Edvard Munch’s Scream: On Sale Today!
Not today actually but next Wednesday, "The Scream" is expected to fetch $80 million at Sotheby's. Private viewings in London and New York will have preceded the big auction. It's a painting that spoke…
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Marie Ponsot Named NYC Literary Legend [by Catherine Woodard]
In the New York Botanical Garden in November, Marie Ponsot paused in front of a towering tree. She recalled as a little girl she delighted her mother with the observation that trees are just like…
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NaPoWriMo Poems Day #26: Home Stretch!
Now you’re really in the home stretch of NaPoWriMo, scribblers! If this was a marathon, you’d be peeing blood by now. Today’s prompt, an elegy, which reminds me: I especially love, “Blue looked at…
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This Just In: Call for Submissions – The Poet’s Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Sprirtuality
Poet, editor and publisher Todd Swift writes to us from London with this call for submissions: Eyewear Publishing is looking for new, mostly previously-unpublished poems, written in English, concerned with spiritual issues in this…
