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  • Michael Palmer: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    February 20, 2022

                                          Michael Palmer. Photo by Juno Gemes  __________________________________________________ Falling Down in America   Every three seconds…

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  • “Jew You” in 2002 and today [by David Lehman]

    February 19, 2022

    Back in 2002, I wrote "Jew You." It appears in my book When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), and though it is not my favorite of the poems I wrote that spring, it…

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  • “Myth(ologies) in the Making in Chicago” [by Stacey Harwood]

    February 19, 2022

                                                      Photograph by Jennifer B. Hudson: http://www.jenniferhudsonfineart.com From the Archives (November…

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  • “What’s Happening”: David Shapiro in memory of Kenneth Koch

    February 18, 2022

    What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget!  I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I rarely dance."…

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  • “What’s Happening”: David Shapiro in memory of Kenneth Koch

    February 18, 2022

    What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget!  I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I rarely dance."…

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  • “Elegy for Archie Ammons” [by Jim Cummins]

    February 18, 2022

    Last night I read “Part Ten”Of Archie Ammons’s GarbageOut loud, twice, in an empty room.Then stopped in embarrassmentTo hear if anyone was listening. I’d bought the book so many years agoAnd carried it with…

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