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Sesame Seed Lamps, The Wasteland’s Worth, and Your Mom [by Nick Courtright]
A cursory news media analysis of positive stories versus negative ones makes it no wonder we consistently feel a sense of doom about the state of the world, even though telling metrics like air…
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“Because I Said So”: Review of Alan Ziegler at The New School Poetry Forum with David Lehman [By Nora Brooks]
Since 1978, when Mark Strand was denied a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book The Monument on the grounds that the poems were not in verse, prose poetry has fought a battle—which it…
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Archie Rand at Rhombus Space
Archie Rand, “July” from “The Months” series by Archie Rand 2011. Acrylic, enamel, chalk, charcoal, appliqué on fabric, 26 x 70” Rhombus Space is pleased to present Thought Bubbles, an exhibition featuring Archie Rand’s…
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Day Two of Five days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “Regrets”
Regrets OMGWhat’ve I done?Agreed to write5 sestinas on the IncredibleSestina Anthology?Time’s almost up. I really fucked up big, OMG,this time.Have I ever done anything so incredibly stupid? Write five? What’ll I write?Am I upto…
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Burning Down the Forest, Like Thoreau, and Poets Eating Poets [by Nick Courtright]
For decades, The Forest Service had a program of trying to put out every fire immediately, which was a disastrous error. This is because fires are natural, and they keep highly flammable undergrowth from…
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What Really Happened at Lehman Brothers [by David Lehman]
Fortunately for the family, my uncles and brothers had liquidated most of their holdings in the firm by the time of its collapse in September 2008. Nevertheless, whether out of nostalgia or pure forgetfulness,…
