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“Visiting Faculty” by Andrea Selch
After figuring out the right answer to our poetry challenge, Andrea Selch composed this acrostic in which "John and I / Observed the interaction" of a visiting poet (who may or may not be…
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“After Achilles” by David Yezzi
After scrambling the anagram to come up with the correct answer — "The Triumph of Achilles" by Louise Gluck — David Yezzi wrote this acrostic poem in two stanzas. The first letters of the…
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Jerome Kern’s Birthday
It’s Jerome David Kern’s birthday. Jerry would have been 123 years old today. Jonathan Schwartz is devoting his Sunday show on WNYC-FM to Kern’s songs as interpreted by Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Margaret Whiting, et…
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Judge Paul Violi Picks Frank Osen’s Penelope’s Shield as Winner of The Best American Poetry Poem Challenge II Read Osen’s winning poem here. Violi also singled out as runners up As the Underworld Turns…
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Freud Quiz # 2
According to Freud in The Future of an Illusion, what is an illusion? (a) A falsehood. (b) Something that may be true or may come true but probably won’t. (c) Religion. (d) Art. (e)…
