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JOHN MURILLO: AN EYE ON KONTEMORARY AMERIKAN POETRY [by John Hennessy]
Today we turn to John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry as we continue looking at several books that came out early in the pandemic: “Well, there is the pandemic, certainly. But I believe this current…
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VIEVEE FRANCIS: Devotion [by John Hennessy]
As I noted earlier this week, for the next few days my focus here will be on presenting work by several of the poets we’ve published in The Common. Today we turn to the…
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Retroscope: Alan Bernheimer presents Ron Padgett’s “Albanian Diary”
Alan Bernheimer writes: <<< Ever wonder what it was like in Albania soon after the Iron Curtain came down? Travel along with Ron Padgett for the sights, sounds, and smells in the latest episode…
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Emily Dickinson [by Mitch Sisskind]
Put aside the twaddle about her Foisted upon us in ten thousand Books and other tedious varieties. Nights in green eyeshadow she Panther-like prowled Amherst's Back alleys her brain abuzz with Webster's definition of…
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UKRAINIAN POETRY AND SCREEN SAVOR: Greetings from Amherst [by John Hennessy]
(From A New Orthography, by Serhiy Zhadan) We’ve Been Talking About War for Three Years (part one) + A friend of mine volunteered. He came back six months later. Who knows where he was. He…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Five): Nin Andrews [by Angela Ball]
Sometimes I feel so inspiredafter Ulalume González de LeónI think I am flying. Yes, flying far away. So far away, in fact, that between you and me, I am at a loss for words.…
