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  • Star Black’s Portraits of Poets: from the BAP Gala, 9/25/08

    September 29, 2023

    Meghan O'Rourke Richard Howard Lee Upton Laura Cronk and David LehmanJohn Ashbery and Adam Zagajewski All photos by Star Black. Copyright (c) 2008 by Star Black.  Adam Zagajewski was reading at NYU that evening,…

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  • Two Translations of Rabelais: Required Reading

    September 28, 2023

    <<When the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings,…

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  • Two Translations of Rabelais: Required Reading

    September 28, 2023

    <<When the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings,…

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  • On Nin Andrews’s “The Last Orgasm” (three years ago)

    September 27, 2023

    Nin Andrews, a regular contributor to this blog, whose poems have appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry, has brilliantly extended the conceit she introduced in her Book of Orgasms, first published in 1994, reprinted…

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  • On Nin Andrews’s “The Last Orgasm” (three years ago)

    September 27, 2023

    Nin Andrews, a regular contributor to this blog, whose poems have appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry, has brilliantly extended the conceit she introduced in her Book of Orgasms, first published in 1994, reprinted…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: September 27, 2023

    September 27, 2023

    Today I wanted to give a shout out to The Unsung Masters Series, which brings forgotten poets to a whole new audience. The most recent volume is about Bert Meyers (1928-1979), a poet new…

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