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TONIGHT: 22nd Annual Poets House Showcase Opening
The 22nd Annual Poets House Showcase Opening TONIGHT Thursday June 26, 2014 10 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 • 5:30-7:00pm Opening Reception • 7:00pm Readings by Meena Alexander, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Lehman,…
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FLASH MEMOIRS OF LIFE ON THE TEACHING ROAD [by Alan Zeigler]
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (1974) Shortly after I start the graduate writing program at City College, someone tells me about Kenneth Koch’s book on teaching poetry writing to children and asks whether that is…
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The American Scholar’s Crowd-Sourced Sonnet: Looking for Line 10!
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a Shakespearean sonnet. David Lehman supplied the first line and picks subsequent lines from reader submissions. If…
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SHORT PROSE BITES* [by Alan Ziegler]
*bites used here as a noun These quotes and fragments are part of a compendium-in-progress. ^ A partial glossary of nomenclature: Anecdotes, aphorisms, apothegms, Briefs, brief essays, Casos, crônicas, Definitions, Denkbilder, Espresso stories, extracts,…
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A Portfolio of Shorts by Newer Writers [selected by Alan Ziegler]
Nora Brooks SOUP OF GLASS AND CHALK-STAINED SKIES Maybe you own a crockpot. Meals made in them are supposed to be nourishing. Chalky edges of plaster gape open around the hole in the wall…
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Ring Me Up, Scotty [by Charles Coe]
I've discovered that when you can’t figure out how your fancy new Internet-based office phone works, you create more problems than you solve by jabbing buttons at random. And tempted as I might be,…
