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Nabokov’s Superman Poem [by Vladimir Nabokov, June 1942]
Vladimir Nabokov's poem about "Superman of the Funnies," written in June 1942, has surfaced and been published in London's Times Literary Supplement. Nabokov sent the poem to The New Yorker, whose poetry editor, Charles…
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“I Love Sex in All its Forms” [poem by Denise Duhamel]
When Denise Duhamel checked her spam folder for the first time in years, she found that so many women, mistaking her for a heterosexual man, had been leaving her messages. When she saw the…
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“I’m a very average person. ..” [by David Lehman]
April 21 [1998] "I’m a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two kids, a boy and a girl. Last Sunday I played golf…
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Tom Meschery—Rerun from 2015 [by Alan Ziegler]
With Steph Curry swishing three-pointers into the bucket by the bucket, I was reminded of this piece from 2015, in which Tom Meschery said, "I can’t stop writing little haikus about Steph Curry," and…
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My (Old) Bio [by Molly Arden]
Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New England states plus Florida and Arizona. At 19 she was…
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Squibs 464-472 [by Alan Ziegler]
464: Found Writing Prompt: 465: I can’t operate a phone in a dream. I misdial on buttons too small, can’t retrieve messages, am unable to phone home to tell my dead parents I’ll be late. And,…
