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Javier Zamora, Guest Author January 25-29
This week we welcome Javier Zamora as our guest author. Javier was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, the…
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Snow is general . . .
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time…
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Happy Birthday Mr. B! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine rehearsing "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (music by Richard Rodgers) with Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell, 1968. George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is permanently imprinted on my brain, perhaps because I saw…
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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…
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Paris Massascre, suite 2: Hearts must break [by Tracy Danison]
As news of the of the Friday, November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris spread, a friend wrote me that she “was heart broken”. Another wrote, “Those crazy bastards!”. I was inclined to agree with…
