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  • A Word to the Unwise [by Charles Coe]

    April 7, 2014

    I’ve decided to stop handing out free advice; people just don’t appreciate it. For example I know someone who likes to travel; her home and office are infested with souvenir snow globes she picks…

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  • Edward Hirsch, Guest Author April 7-11

    April 6, 2014

    photo (c) Julie Dermansky This week we welcome Edward Hirsch as our guest author. Edward, a MacArthur Fellow, is the author of eight poetry books, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (Knopf,…

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  • This Monday, April 7, at KGB: Nate Pritts + Jennifer H. Fortin + Adam Fell

    April 5, 2014

    Nate Pritts + Jennifer H. Fortin + Adam Fell Monday, April 7, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew YeagerSeries founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors open at 7:00 pmReading…

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  • Like a Golf Ball (by Mitch Sisskind)

    April 4, 2014

      A poem is like a golf ball because A poem’s meaning derives from The multifarious denotations And connotations of words Compressed within the poem As in a golf ball tightly packed Rubber bands…

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  • Poetry Forum: Alan Ziegler, Tuesday, April 8, 2014 6:30 PM

    April 3, 2014

    The New School 66 West 12th Street, Room A510 New York, NY 10011 Alan Ziegler, the editor of Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short…

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  • Lisbon Mon Amour [by Howard Altmann]

    April 3, 2014

    It happens I am a fool.  It happens I’m rather good at being a fool.  It happens I am at my foolish best in Lisbon. I wish it weren’t so.  I wish I could…

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