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  • “Borges and the Camels” [by Bruce F. Kawin]

    April 11, 2020

    for John Ashbery Two stories from the mid-1960s. (1) When I was an English major at Columbia, I took a creative writing course from Kenneth Koch, who changed my life.  Actually it was a…

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  • “STOP Window” [by Susan Gunter]

    April 11, 2020

      Susan E. Gunter is a professor, Henry James scholar, poet, and watercolor artist. She began painting eight years ago, working from her own photographs and using just three colors: Windsor blue, alizarin crimson,…

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  • Goat Rock Beach [by Susan Gunter]

    April 10, 2020

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  • “We just do what we have to do.” When tedious work is pleasurable [by Stacey Lehman]

    April 10, 2020

    Face masks, ready to be washed before inserting ties. This was supposed to be the season of sewing my summer wardrobe. I'd picked the patterns and purchased the fabric to make breezy cotton dresses,…

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  • On Lawrence Fixel’s “Flight Patterns” [by Peter Johnson]

    April 9, 2020

    In the history of the American prose poem from 1965 onward, I would argue that one writer and one collection stands above the others. The writer is Lawrence Fixel, and the collection is Truth, War, and the Dream-Game: Selected Prose…

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  • “Two Portraits of the Poet” [by Ricky Mujica]

    April 9, 2020

    Paintings c 2020 Ricky Mujica.Click here for more information: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ricky-mujica-poet-david-lehman

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