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  • Erotic Reading @ KGB Tomorrow

    March 9, 2008

    Monday, March 10th, the KGB poetry series celebrates The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present With readings by Star BlackMarc CohenJanice ErlbaumJennifer L. KnoxCate MarvinNoah MichelsonRachel ShukertMaggie Wells and editor, David…

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  • Daylight Savings / Billie Holiday (1996)

    March 9, 2008

    She’s a high-maintenance dollat two in the morning she startstalking the pauses between youranswers grow longer she says "you’re not listening" you repeatwhat she said she says "that’sjust a trick you weren’t reallylistening" and…

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  • Yesterday Was National Frozen Food Day [by Jennifer L. Knox]

    March 7, 2008

    What did you have for dinner? I like David Byrne because he says that frozen food, Dilly Bars, TV, prefab houses, Appleby’s and shopping malls—all the things we take as evidence of Man’s Fall…

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  • Todd Colby’s Kryptonite [by Jennifer L. Knox]

    March 7, 2008

    The first time I saw Todd Colby read, he more-like whispered a poem about stealing a co-worker’s Fresh Samantha’s from the refrigerator, and drinking it while hiding in a bathroom stall. A fellow-fan of…

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  • “The Compulsion to Repeat” by Kathleen Ignatius

    March 6, 2008

    The Compulsion to Repeat (after reading David Lehman’s Freud Quiz #5) I’m going to begin by repeating a phrase oft repeated and despised by those like me who dislike repetition for impression a friend…

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  • Reading LOL cats…

    March 6, 2008

    …can be like trying to make out what Jim’s saying in Huckleberry Finn. I’ll take the immediacy of Faildogs.—JLK

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