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Poetry-Famous [by Joshua Mehigan]
Poets nowadays have their own sort of fame. That is, they are famous and not famous. The celebrated poet’s work may affect thousands, tens of thousands, or in extremely rare…
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This Is Just to Say . . .Happy Birthday William Carlos Williams
To honor the 130th anniversary of William Carlos Williams's birth, Harvard Library offers a virtual poetry reading. For background and to listen to WCM, go here. (Warning, if you're at work, the reading of…
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F. R. Leavis Leaves His Fielding on the Field [by Leon Elson]
This,according to the London Kazoo of Books, isF. R. Leavis,characteristically unyielding:"Life's too short to waste on the novels of Henry Fielding."
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Contributor’s Note to “I take your T-shirt to bed again . . . ” by Amy Lemmon
Denise Duhamel included Amy Lemmon's poem in this year's volume of The Best American Poetry. Here is what Amy writes about her poem: "As Proust famously asserted, smell is the sense that most powerfully…
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“Happy 41, Brian Henry!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
BRIAN HENRY (9/17) •Whippoorwill and weeping willow:One is a bird; the other, a tree.Forty-one years of Brian Henry:My memory is playing a trick upon me.Henry and memory—a trick upon me Whippoorwill and weeping willow:The…
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A Parlor Game [by Joshua Mehigan]
Our century’s latest answer to parlor games like Twenty Questions and Snapdragon is the short recreative list. Probably by now it’s safe to say that everyone is at…
