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Charlie Simic’s BAP
Launch reading for BAP 1992: Pictured are Charles Simic, David Lehman,.Jonathan Aaron, Lynda Hull, Rosanna Warren. Hull and Simic are in the second photo. We chose a Joserph Cornell box for the book's cover…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty): Michael Robins [by Angela Ball]
Called Back Before she crossed the quarter mile between the homestead & town cemetery, Emily Dickinson helped plan her own funeral. “Everything was white,” one biography reports: white ribbons & textile handles, flannel for…
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Victoria Kennefick: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________________________ Deposition I love you the way waves love cliffs. They fling lace skirts against rock, can-can kicks rush the top, fall back down; froth clings—a kiss. Sometimes they wash worn…
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More Unpublished Couplets from “The Two Davids” [by David Shapiro and David Lehman]
David Shapiro and I corresponded by couplets in February 2003. Here are some previously unpublished exanmples. And here is a conversation with David Shapiro conducted by Kent Johnson http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-shapiro-d-ivb-kent.shtmlSubj: Kenneth said: We always make…
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Poetry Comic [by Nin Andrews]
I went out to eat this week with several friends, and I couldn't believe how complicated it was to complete our order. One friend has celiac; another is lactose intolerant; another is on…
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“Grande Mess” & “Le Sacre du Sucre” harness history to sense and beauty in Guadeloupe’s past and present [By Tracy Danison]
“Grande Mess” by Clémence Baubant. Photo © Service communication Artchipel Scène Nationale de la Guadeloupe The dance performance Grande Mess by Clémence Baubant starts with three young woman dance performers of color from Guadeloupe…
