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  • “My Favorite Gershwin Song (in the manner of David Lehman)” [by Lauren Hilger]

    June 14, 2017

    POSTED IN PANK ON JUNE 12, 2017 INTERVIEW BY LAUREN HILGER Poems in the Manner of… David Lehman’s most recent book speaks to the future by speaking to the poets who have come before. Featuring poems inspired…

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  • Literary Lipsticks [poem by Elaine Equi]

    June 12, 2017

    Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red Weather A Rose Is a Rose Jaffa Juice Watermelon Sugar Frost at Midnight                         Elaine Equi

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  • Happy Birthday David!

    June 11, 2017

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  • “The Perfect Guy” [by Lily Bowen]

    June 9, 2017

    He picks me up at eight in his mother’s BMW. He rolls up the sleeves of his maroon wool sweater and orders an Old Fashioned. He's been drilling oil in Saudi Arabia and he…

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  • On D-Day: Auden on War and Peace [by David Lehman]

    June 6, 2017

    On D-Day, I think of the success of that unprecedented cross-channel invasion — and my gratitude to the people that fought and won the war. This year I find myself returning to the subjects…

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  • “The Man Outside the Met” [by Lily Bowen]

    June 2, 2017

    After VINCENZO BELLINI’s I Puritani Maybe it was Elvira,the juxtaposition of her grief, descendinginto madness, as I discovered my exhad found someone new. I thought, how quickly men seem to change their hearts. I…

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