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“Parable” by Louise Glück [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Last Saturday’s referendum to alter Australia’s constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice failed to pass. It is, I feel, a…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 18, 2023
Here is a dispatch from Peter Johnson…. The Question of the Day: Why would Peter Johnson, an established poet with a decent reputation, give away a book of fragments/prose poems called Observations at the Edge…
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Missed the Game [by David Lehman]
Missed the game until the top of the eighthat the Knickerbocker the sound off the TVI ordered a vesper and a burger and the Mets fan on my left, a chess instructor,filled me in,…
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Louise Glück, 1943-2023 [by David Lehman]
Last week, on Friday the 13th, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, wonderful poet and friend, died at the age of 80. Louise edited The Best American Poetry 1993, and the experience of working closely with…
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The Bravest Grope a Little [by Amanda Smeltz]
A brief reading of Emily Dickinson’s We Grow Accustomed to the Dark. We grow accustomed to the Dark —When light is put away —As when the Neighbor holds the LampTo witness her Goodbye —…
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Paula Bohince: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ Trespass Father’s paroled during the drought of seventy-eight only to vanish again, this time taking me…
