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Top 10 Posts of 2016 [by Stacey Lehman]
Dear Readers, We've had thousands of posts and hundreds of guest bloggers since we began this blog in 2008. Here are your favorites, by date, of 2016: I Don’t Like Poetry, I’m Not a…
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Koufax: Hurricane Sandy Strikes out the Side [by David Lehman]
The first Major League baseball game I ever saw took place in May 1957 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The Dodgers, my team, were taking on the New York Giants, and my father took…
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Streets of Paris: blocks, politics, passages and whatnot
This anecdote is perfectly true. This morning a guy with a white hussar-style mustache and heavy East European accent grabbed my arm as I was passing under a soaring concrete viaduct. Pardon, M’sieur, the hussar…
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Literary Journal Spotlight: Poet Lore [by Abdul Ali]
Publishing poems is a stressful undertaking. All those weeks bleeding into months of waiting. And let's not talk about the stakes in getting published–the validation, the fleeting social media fame, the entries on the…
