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Poem #2 from University of Mississippi, 1957 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Grey SquirrelStudent To cozy up to the Beatnik Girl I joinedThe Folk Music Club. The meetingConsisted of singing to each otherFrom mimeographed pages while A few of them played their guitars. No other males were…
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Why Poets Love Noir #5 [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis in dialogue]
What is the relationship between a Hitchcock movie and the noir genre? Suzanne Lummis:These days, for certain complicated historical reasons, the noir scholars maintain that film noir is not a genre— that most of…
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“Sometimes the cow puts her foot in the bucket” [David Lehman interviews A. R. Ammons (Part III)]
Self Portrait (c) A. R. Ammons 1977 David Lehman A. R. Ammons Interview Part III Find Part II here. Find Part I here.
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For Summer: Florida Poets: Angela Narciso Torres [by Emma Trelles]
flamingo hammock palm, 24 x 24 in. oil on canvas, eleanor blair Harvesting the Heartby Angela Narciso Torres In Florida, I shall eat a palm seed…
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Roger Gilbert speaking on A. R. Ammons’s “Speaking”
From August 2-4, Cornell University professor Roger Gilbert is hosting "Archie in the Archives," a symposium devoted to the poetry of A. R. Ammons and to Ammons treasures to be found in the Cornell…
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“To Summer” [by David Lehman]
Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body like a violin?Summer is the reason for my grin,and on that violin I would play. In the nave of her church I…