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“A Visit” [by David Shapiro]
It was a small family partyAunt Olive who tried to save Dallaspleased after death to have a parknamed after her after deathTerrified I got up off my usual positionand didn't know whether to look…
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Theodore Roethke (on His Birthday) [by David Lehman]
No anthology is as nearly complete as the editor wishes. In the case of The Best American Erotic Poems (2008), permission for the use of several poems was denied. Theodore Roethke's 1958 poem "The…
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The Publisher’s Publisher: Mark Saunders 1967-2019 [poem and tribute by Dean J. Smith]
The Beamfor M.H.S Dome of white goldbetween indigoclouds sabered shaftson blue ridgemark new directions stanchions abovethe diamond–his field illumined precision lasersroam over textsin his study flares of lovefor his wifeand children light of pure…
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#TBT Found in Translation — China, 2008 [by David Lehman]
Eleven years have gone by since Stacey and I traveled in China and Mongolia. Here's a blog post from then: << On Monday the 19th, lecturing on American poetry to a room of over…
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Artie Shaw and band play “Frenesi”
Artie Shaw, born on this day, was born to playthe clarinet, and when heleft for Mexico, he came backwith this great track:
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For Alexander Pope and E. M. Forster: Fools rush in. . .
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." — Alexander Pope"Where Angels Fear to Tread." — E. M. Forster". . .and so I come to you, my love, my heart above my head." —…
