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  • Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 11 — Michele Leggott’s ‘slow reader’

    September 1, 2014

                      slow reader   the reports always said she was conscientious but must learn to work faster    so she outran the reading laboratory    got through tan…

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  • Sandy Koufax Named “Sports Illustrated”‘s Favorite Athlete

    August 31, 2014

    In honor of Sports Illustrated's 60th anniversary, SI.com is republishing, in full, 60 of the best stories ever to run in the magazine's history. Today's selection is on Sandy Koufax, whom the magazine named…

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  • See you in September . . .

    August 31, 2014

    Ed note: We're taking a much needed break to enjoy the remaining days of summer. We'll be back on September 8th. Meanwhile, we hope to see you at these events: An Evening with Edward…

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  • Tempus fugit, or Late August [by Moira Egan]

    August 30, 2014

    (Seamus Heaney & Damiano Abeni, Casa delle Letterature, May, 2013)  Blackberry-Picking         for Philip Hobsbaum Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At…

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  • DRIVE: Car Poems [Kelle Groom]

    August 29, 2014

    Greenery, Atlantic Center for the Arts Three years ago, I moved the contents of my house into a storage unit, and left to live and write in a number of places I’d never been…

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  • JAMES MERRILL’S HOUSE: A TENANCY [Kelle Groom]

    August 28, 2014

    James Merrill The year I was born, when I was less than two weeks old, celebrated poet James Merrill published his poem, “A Tenancy” in Poetry. It would appear the next year in his…

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