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  • Geoffrey Himes: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    January 9, 2022

                              _________________________________________________________________________ The Swimming Pool   The diver was a knife that slit the surface with the merest sliver of a splash.…

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  • “The Adlai Stevenson of the Art World” [Jane Freilicher]

    January 8, 2022

    A 1956 letter written by Ms. Freilicher to Frank O’Hara, who celebrated her in his acclaimed “Jane” poems, initiated various plans to get together, beginning: “Dear Frankie, I was utterly delighted to get your…

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  • A is for Oboe [by Lera Auerbach]

    January 8, 2022

    The virtual book launch of Lera Auerbach's A is for Oboe – The Orchestra's Alphabet, a book of poems for children about music, will take place Sundasy, January 9, 2022. Felicitations! Lera writes :…

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  • “I Meant To” [by Michael Lally]

    January 7, 2022

    I meant to put thosesixty-three namesand email addressesin the BCC blind copyspace, not the CC copy space. I meant to send it to him, not her.I meant to swallow notdrool, on the computer,my lap, your…

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  • In “Stay Thirsty,” Ten New Daily Poems [by David Lehman]

    January 7, 2022

    <<<Stay Thirsty Magazine is honored to present the following ten, never-before-published, original poems by David Lehman and to continue our special relationship with him that began with a Conversation in the Fall 2014 edition of…

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  • Boston, April 2013: “The Best of the Best” with Robert Pinsky and Co.

    January 6, 2022

    A happy memory: Celebrating "The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Annviersary Edition" in Boston with editor Robert Pinsky and assorted contributors, including Charles Simic, Rosanna Warren, Lloyd Schwartz, and Frank Bidart.

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