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The Best American Neurotic Poetry [by Janice Erlbaum]
I barely slept last night. I kept waking up and wondering, what am I going to post on the Best American Poetry blog? I never should have accepted the guest blogging assignment; now everybody…
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“The Longest Pleasure,” according to Byron
And is there not religion, and reform, Peace, war, the taxes, and what's call'd the "Nation"? The struggle to be pilots in a storm? The landed…
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Aracelis Girmay & Chris Marin @ KGB
Monday, March 31, 2008 @ 7:30 PM Admission is FREE KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street (between 2nd Ave. & Bowery) New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212-505-3360 Aracelis Girmay is the author of Teeth,…
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Johnny Mercer and Friend
The lyricist Johnny Mercer — who wrote the words for Jeepers Creepers and That Old Black Magic and I’m Old-Fashioned and Sylark and Blues in the Night — and who? Who is the lovely…
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Marvelous Poet (Andrew Marvell) [by David Lehman]
Marvelous Poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) has been called “the greatest minor poet in the English language.” There’s plenty of competition for this curious distinction, but the case for Marvell…
