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  • Eneida P. Alcalde: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 23, 2025

          ________________________________________________________________________ Poetic Justice   The poem that needs to be written             is not white.   The poem that needs to be written             does not speak English.  …

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  • Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. . .

    March 21, 2025

    The Last Cigarette — Cinema’s most seductive prop — By David Lehman Every cigarette is the last cigarette. In the black-and-white world of noir, cigarettes are everywhere. But then, they are ubiquitous in all movies, as…

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  • Mystery in familiarity: Marion Zurbach’s “Les Héritiers-x” happens [By Tracy Danison]

    March 21, 2025

    A couple of months ago, a neighbor over the street with whom Karine, my partner, has only ever had a nodding acquaintance, decided to move to Berlin, to be with her younger son. The…

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  • Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration [by Mindy Aloff]

    March 21, 2025

    Left to Right: Kenneth Koch, David Lehman, John Ashbery (photo © Stacey Lehman) On St. Patrick’s Day, The New School and Library of America put on “Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration.” The program…

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  • THE MOODY TEMPLE and A HUM-DRUM NOT KNOWING [by John Hennessy]

    March 21, 2025

    SIFNOS (c) IAN MACLELLAN Psalm on Sifnos By Stephen Yenser One does not want, O Lord, to heapUp by still watersOf words a cairnBut hopes to attendA small covertOf tamariskWhose leaves saltyYet featheryWill shed…

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  • The Poet, Amy Woolard (by Nin Andrews)

    March 20, 2025

    Every now and then, I come across a poet who makes my jaw drop, my heart skip a beat–my mind, too. A poet who surprises me line after line, poem after poem. They are…

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