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#TBT: A Couple of Swells by Stacey Harwood
So I took this photo the first time I met Erin. It was shortly after I had moved to New York City and I was quite nervous. We were at David's Greenwich Village apartment,…
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ALAN ZIEGLER: TEN SIPS AT A CAFE
sip one A café can also go under the name diner, coffee house, coffee shop, or bistro. My mother turned a Woolworths lunch counter into a café. She knew what the people liked and…
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Next Line, Please: Old Acrostic, New Acrostic by David Lehman
The American Scholar's Next Line, Please contest continues with a crowd-sourced five-line acrostic poem. Here's how David Lehman introduced the contest: We are going to write an acrostic based on an epigraph. The poem…
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Interviews with Poets–Day 3–Adrian Matejka (by Erin Belieu)
So this is turning out to be the most fun ever. How do I get my own radio show? If I got to spend my days just asking people I like ridiculous questions I…
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Alan Ziegler Returns!
Beginning tomorrow, Alan Zeigler will join us as a regular contributor. Alan's posts earlier this year were quite popular so we are delighted that he has agreed to return. He is the editor of…
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A Conversation with the Past: Edward Hirsch and David Lehman at the New School [by Danielle Elizabeth Chin]
On September 3rd, a full house of eager poets, professors, students, and friends gathered at The New School for the season’s first poetry forum, featuring Edward Hirsch, poet, critic, anthologist, and president of the…
