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Andrei Codrescu, Guest Author February 5-9
photo (c) Eduard Koller This week we welcome Andrei Codrescu as our guest author. Andrei's recent books are Bibliodeath (My Archives with Life in Footnotes) (2012) and The Art of Forgetting: New Poems (2016). Find out more…
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Lafcadio Hearn, the ghost of islands [By Andrei Codrescu]
I signed up to write an introduction to Lafcadio Hearn's collection of ghost stories, to be published by Princeton University Press next year. Hearn lived in New Orleans for a few years in the…
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“I’ll drink to that”: Bobby Darin does the stars (by DL)
Cagney and Cary Grant don't want to hear any of your lipso here's my friend BrandyI mean Brando mumblingrustic Walter Brennan, the real McCoy,Clark Gable huffyJimmy Stewart that's how it goesyou see Robert Mitchum's…
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Two Versions of Marianne Moore’s “The Past is the Present” [by David Lehman]
Marianne Moore didn't make it easy on us. She revised her poems, and often the later versions are radically different from and vastly inferior to the original.Thanks to the latest scholarship, I have learned…
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A Dare to Be Unconventional: Nin Andrews and Dante Di Stefano Discuss Miss August (CavanKerry Press, 2017)
DD: In his introduction to the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present,David Lehman notes: “Writing a prose poem can therefore seem like accepting a dare to be unconventional. It is a…
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Groucho’s Last Stand!
The one and only. . ."They're tearing down part of your old neighborhood." "That's not coincidental," says Julius (Groucho) Marx,, who lived on 93rd Street and went to PS 86 in NYC. "Ladies and gentlemen,…
