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The Three P’s: Prison Poetry Process (by Nicole Santalucia)
Right now I am sitting in my spacious third floor office with hardwood floors in a one hundred and twenty year old building that used to be a ladies dormitory at Shippensburg University in…
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Farmhands, Prisoners, and Bra-Burners (by Nin Andrews)
If I was bored as a child, my mother would always say, Imagine you were in jail. Think of all the…
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Sir Larry [by David Lehman]
On this day in 1989, Sir Laurence Olivier breathed his last. The great actor was eighty-two when he shuffled off this mortal coil. He was a master of accents and disguises. As a young…
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Financial Literacy: A Multiple-Choice Quiz [by David Lehman]
Have we taught a generation of college graduates to vilify capitalism without doing it the honor of knowing how it works? Spot checks at New York’s Penn Station reveal that a vast majority of…
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Name a Song (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Hey Bleaders Collaboration continues. Picture and 6 Stanzas. In other news, Cry if you want to, Hecht said to herself, who wouldn't listen, and maybe you. Love, Jennifer Rapture The two-tone girl, mouth wide open,…
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“In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton” (Nightboat Books) [by David Lehman]
We welcome the publication of In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, a posthumous collection by a wonderful poet who died in 1994, entirely too young. The publisher is Nightboat…
