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“Lining-Up (for Charles North)” [by David Lehman]
This poem was inspired by a dream I had in which Amy Gerstler and I were on the same softball team, with her in lead-off position playing shortstop. Charles North has written many great…
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“Australia’s Gwen Harwood: Nomad of the Mind” [by Thomas Moody]
Today is the 100th birthday of Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s finest poets and most famous hoaxers. On August 5, 1961, Harwood published a pair of sonnets, “Eloisa to Abelard” and “Abelard to Eloisa,”…
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A Night on the Town, 2018 [by Stacey Lehman]
There were six of us and it was late. We had fallen in together in search of a restaurant or bar, following an event at Poets House to celebrate 30 years of the annual…
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“They’re gonna take a hike / through Hitler’s Reich”: D-Day plus 76
There'll be a hot time in the town of Berlin. . .
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Two Dozen Reasons to Make Dinner [by Adrienne Su]
Twelve Ways Cooking Is Empowering: When you look into the refrigerator at what used to elicit a wail of “there’s nothing to eat,” you see the makings of a frittata, pizza, or fried rice.…
