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  • “My Life Is a Test” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    August 30, 2010

    Here's another question from my autobiography in the form of an SAT test. After you've had a look at it, you can watch the explanatory video featuring the kind participation of my friend Alexandra.…

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  • BANK HOLIDAY WITH MY BAROQUE PAPA [by Dante Micheaux]

    August 30, 2010

    In a 1999 essay published in The Southern Review, literary critic Laurence Goldstein implies Robert Hayden’s “Perseus” to be the greatest poem in the world. Though it may not reach such titular extravagance for…

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  • The time is right

    August 29, 2010

    There's no time like the present for a martini with a twist. avec les sept voleurs de Chicago

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  • Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Joanna Ruocco

    August 29, 2010

    When I Worked for Madonna The bodyguards wear white The bullets fly towards them The bodyguards are clouds The bullets do not penetrate Kaddafi. The bullets are precipitation After we drink coffee, we check the bird feeders. Kaddafi has purple martins…

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  • Postcard from Hampstead [by Dante Micheaux]

    August 29, 2010

    (home of John Keats)   Everything you have heard about the English is true. They are disingenuous and dull except when they are drunk, which is almost all the time, on the cheapest, warmest…

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  • 1 TV Haiku

    August 28, 2010

    MAD MEN II Peggy peeks into Don's office sees his despair No schadenfreude, kid

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