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“JA on the G Train” [by Thomas Moody]
We have gone to great pains translating the universeinto a forgettable vernacular. Life speaks to usin the New International Versionso that the day lacks a certain cadence, the nightany discernible yearning. A grocery listof…
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“Hick and Willie Get a Catalog from the ‘Atheist Collective’ Gallery” [by Jim Cummins]
Hick: "Got the mail. Here's a list of 'Easter Fun Facts,' straight from Jesus. Did you know He suffered from 'Dysfunction, Resurrectile,' until His Father threw a thunderbolt projectile? It broke the stone to…
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Impossible! Simone de Beauvoir’s “Second Sex” not counted among France’s classics [by Tracy Danison]
An open letter the editorial committee, management, directors, share- and stakeholders of Gallimard and the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Impossible: Simone de Beauvoir’s signal contribution to world literature is absent from the Pleiade, France’s…
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Next Line, Please: The Best of Everything [by Virginia Valenzuela]
On this week's installment of Next Line, Please, dated September 11th, a day many of us remember solemnly and viscerally, David Lehman takes a moment to talk about the beauty of truth and the…
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“Good Bad Titles” [by David Lehman]
On May 30, 2008, in this space, Dan Nester posted about an afternoon he and Jonah Winter spent sending up the titles that adorn poetry books. The titles that occurred to them "all seemed so aggressively…
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Introducing The Best American Poetry 2018: Guest Editor Dana Gioia [video by Blank Verse Films]
This video was created by Mike Gioia for Blank Verse Films. For more BAP videos, scroll here. For more videos, subscribe to the Blank Verse YouTube channel. — sdl
