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Once and for all: Happy New Year 2017
A New Year card from artist Isabelle Braud which strikes me as wonderful. The legend says something like “On Route 2017”. The afternoon of 3 January, the title of a mail I received was, Pour…
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“your thorns are the best part of you.” Roses Only [poem by Marianne Moore]
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset – that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are justified in supposing that you must…
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“The absurd and the routine”: On Mitch Sisskind’s “Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight” [by Thomas Moody]
Mitch Sisskind’s collection of poems and stories, Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight, is a retrospective of a near fifty-year career of provocative, unnerving, absurd, but most of all, searingly funny…
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Top 10 Posts of 2016 [by Stacey Lehman]
Dear Readers, We've had thousands of posts and hundreds of guest bloggers since we began this blog in 2008. Here are your favorites, by date, of 2016: I Don’t Like Poetry, I’m Not a…
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Koufax: Hurricane Sandy Strikes out the Side [by David Lehman]
The first Major League baseball game I ever saw took place in May 1957 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The Dodgers, my team, were taking on the New York Giants, and my father took…
