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Symposium on the Fate of Jewish Refugees from Austria: 6/ 18 / 19
Anne Lehman at the White House, 2003. She narrowly escaped the Nazis but many of her family were murdered by them. As this category included my mother (Anne Lehman, pictured above), her sister, and…
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Next Line, Please: A Sonnet Is Ample Space [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week’s prompt was to begin a poem directly quoting or with a variant of a sentence spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather II: “If history can teach us anything …” and over…
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An Interview with Dante Di Stefano (by Nin Andrews)
NA: Dante, I love your new book! I especially love the poem, "Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen" from last year’s Best American Poetry. Reading it, I imagined that you already were, at seventeen, in essence, a poet.…
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Mayakovsky’s “Cloud in Trousers” (excerpts) [translated by David Lehman]
Posted by LIT, excerpts from Mayakovsky's "Cloud in Trousers": as translated by David Lehman. From part one, for example: Hey!Gentlemen!You who,next to me,are rank amateursin the realmsof sacrilege,mischief,and mayhem —have you laid eyes onthe most…
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Mushroom Chronicles [by Barbara Hamby]
“All human history attests That happiness for man, – the hungry sinner! –Since Eve ate apples, much…
