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  • Overheard: April 19, 2014 2:00 PM University Place & 12th Street [by Stacey Harwood]

    April 19, 2014

    Young woman (25-ish) on phone:  Oh my God! He was, like, your typical Jewish nerd. So Jewish looking. He had, like, black curly hair, a really big nose, and he was, you know how…

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  • Lord Byron’s Greatest Lyric

    April 19, 2014

    So, we'll go no more a roving    So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving,    And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath,    And the…

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  • This Monday at KGB: Brian Blanchfield + Christopher Salerno

    April 18, 2014

    Brian Blanchfield + Christopher Salerno Monday, April 21, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors open at 7:00 pm Reading starts at…

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  • Let’s Make Merry [with Archie Rand at cocktail time]

    April 18, 2014

    Something’s cooking in the bathtub Made for England’s Basil Rathbub Let us tipple Bols or Boodles With vermouth or lukshen noodles And with Plymouth or with Bombay Cherries jubilee a flambé Let us throw…

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  • Lehman and Brooks Slug it Out Over Paul de Man in the New York Review of Books

    April 18, 2014

    Here is David Lehman's response to Peter Brooks' review of The Strange Case of Paul de Man which ran on April 3, 2014. Lehman's letter appears in the May 8, 2014 issue of the NYRB. To…

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  • Day Five of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: Daniel Nester Interviews Me

    April 18, 2014

    Daniel Nester Interviews Me   You write sestinas. Why the sestina? What attracts you to the sestina?How many sestinas have you written?  Are you a sestinanut? Do you remember the first sestina you ever…

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