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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Morton Marcus
The First Laugh The first laugh was God creating the universe. That guffaw is still exploding in all directions, hollowing out and filling the farthest reaches of space. What could have been…
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Jerry Williams, Guest Blogger October 3 -10
This week we welcome Jerry Williams as our guest blogger. Jerry is an associate professor at Marymount Manhattan College. His first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), was a…
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The Eighty-Eight Keys of Phillip Lopate [by Stephanie Paterik]
Phillip Lopate (center) speaks with admirers at the New School Phillip Lopate is best known as a master of prose, penning more than a dozen novels, essay collections and anthologies in his 40-year career.…
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Live from New York: The Best American Poetry 2010, Kimiko Hahn/Jeffrey McDaniel/Eileen Myles
Liste to Elaine Equi, Jill Alexander Essbaum, and Amy Glynn Greacen here.
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State of the Franco [by Amy Lawless]
This week, New York Magazine published a list of actor-writer-film director-producer-painter James Franco’s favorite poems. “It has been found again. What ? – Eternity. It is the sea fled away With the sun.” –Arthur Rimbaud I…
