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The Inquisitive Eater: Market Report by Stacey Harwood-Lehman
In January of 1974, a five-pound bag of sugar cost 85 cents; by year-end, just in time for the office cookie exchange, the price of the same five-pound bag increased to $2.35. The trend…
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Will the Real Cary Grant Please Stand Up? [by David Lehman]
In the TV show "To Tell the Truth," there were always three individuals pretending to be the prominent or accomplished figure, an adventurer or a football hero, and the panel had to choose who…
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“Polykarp Kusch” (by Mitch Sisskind)
Polykarp Kusch (Physics Nobel Prize, 1955) She loved his brain but his body Came with it. He could morph A precise yet poetic Improvisation On waves, clouds, or the wind Into the most incredibly…
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Burning Down Suburbia: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Sjohnna McCray’s Rapture
RaptureSjohnna McCrayGraywolf Press, 2016 Sjohnna McCray’s debut collection, Rapture, celebrates the lives fountaining through a single life and transmutes the eddies of those lives into an aria. Like the blossoms seen falling through a…
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Do male poets have crushes on female poems? [by David Lehman]
Do male poets have crushes on female poems? Maybe, but the reverse is also true, and the old canard that male poetry editors like it when the women talk dirty implies bad faith on…
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“Wolf Howls” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
You can’t swallow the lump in your throat so stop trying.Start breathing, you’ll see, eventually it’ll soften.It’s dark at night, the birds are quiet, except for one that keeps on crying. You start with…
