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Ohio-soul to the smarmy ones placed above me: why no paid vacation for American Fifi?
Series 1, Part 1: On whether she comes running at the snap of my fingers, the bonheur of Fifi here-below, the righteous rage of the Ohio-soul, a woman’s wrath, the true niceties of human…
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Grace Notes: An Interview with the Incomparable Nin Andrews
Grace Cavalieri's interview with Nin Andrews is a must read. Here is a little sampler: <<< Poetry, when it’s happening, is like sex. It totally suffuses me. (I like the word, suffuse.) Afterwards I…
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I Built This Room [by Michael Malinowitz]
I built this room by myselfAnd put into it only things that wouldMatter to me: around an eyelidWindow to view the lastQuarter moons, I stacked books,Only those read or intendedAnd music which outnumberBooks. I…
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“Some of our smartest people’s silliest ideas.”
The American Scholar introduces its podcast series. Click below — or here — for an intro: Download Smarty Pants Theme – 2016-09-28 at 4.35pm-1 –sdl
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Syntax, Sound, and Sensation: Terrance Hayes in Conversation with Alan Michael Parker
In June, 2016, Terrance Hayes visited Florida to read and teach in the University of Tampa low-residency M.F.A. program. In the course of his presentation, he made a comment about syntax and sound that struck…
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This Just In: Fearless Election Predictions (2016) — by David Lehman
I write as one who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1980 with the possible exception of 2004. This is not to claim special powers of prophecy for myself. Rather it…
