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Hump Day (plus one) Highlights by Stacey Harwood
David Lehman has a playlist to go with his New and Selected poems. You'll find it on Largehearted Boy. Did you miss the anniversary of The Gettysburg Address? Two Poems for Gettysburg by Catherine…
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Let’s Get Drunk [Charles Baudelaire’s Injunction; trans. David Lehman]
Charles Baudelaire, father of the French prose poem (and thus progentior of the genre internationally), used prose as the medium of choice for the manifesto, the plea, the diary entry, the dialogue, the truncated…
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The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
November 21, 2013 Dear Mom, Yesterday I couldn’t seem to do it. Well, that sounds a bit more dramatic than I mean it to. Yesterday I couldn’t seem to get myself to write this…
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JOHN FREDERICK NIMS (1913-1999) by Michael Palma
Ed note: The following essay originally appeared in the journal Gradiva. We reprint it here on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Frederick Nims. A substantial selection from Nims' work, The…
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The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Detail of My Mother Many Years Before She Killed Herself This photo was taken before she knew me. Before I was born. It was taken by her first husband, Ralph. I don’t think she’d…
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Guest Author November 18-22
This week we welcome back Gabrielle Calvocoressi as our guest author. Gabrielle is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea) and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the Los…
