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Poetry Challenge: A Prompt [by David Lehman]
Prompt: Write a poem sparked by the deliberately unidentified portrait above. Imagine that it is the portrait of either (a) a celebrated modern poet or (b) a wounded World War I veteran war or…
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Squib 445: Envisioning the Web [by Alan Ziegler]
445: The following document was unearthed during the Great Pandemic Dig of 2020, which is still taking place in millions of closets, attics, basements, and garages. In 1983—seven years before the first web browser and…
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“Coward, Take My Coward’s Hand” [by David Lehman]
David Lehman's "Talking Pictures" column for The American Scholar is devoted this month to "Home of the Brave," Mark Robson's 1949 movie. Here is the opening paragraph: <<<Much of my early education in film…
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“Lesbian Corn” [poem by Elaine Equi, dramatic reading by Nicole Santalucia]
For several years I've been announcing the first corn sighting of the season. The first corn always reminds me of one of my favorite poems, "Lesbian Corn," by Elaine Equi. We're presenting here in…
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Portrait of Anne Porter [by Fairfield Porter]
Fairfield Porter, Anne, 1965, Oil on canvas. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York.
