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Dueling Lobsters [by Alan Ziegler]
The lobster tank is sparsely populated. It is unlikely that any of them will make it through the night. One of the lobsters scuttles across the tank and attacks another. I wonder what brought…
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BAP Exclusive: “The Ugly Stepsister” poem by Denise Duhamel, Illustrations by Ellen Amaral
Click through to read the poem and see the illustrations. Click on the individual image to see it in high resolution (they're spectacular! sdh) The Ugly Stepsister You don't know what it was…
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Composers [by Lera Auerbach]
There are only two types of composers: composing composers and decomposing composers.
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WHEN THE WORDS STOP (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Sometimes when I doubt my mental acuity or the worthiness of a paragraph slowly taking shape on my computer screen, I think about writers who have stopped writing. A writer’s creative desert is much…
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Save the Date: September 24, 2015 – The Best American Poetry 2015 Launch Reading
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 …
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Ducks Duck [by Don Freas]
I saw a young eagle diving at the water out in Budd Inlet. I couldn’t make out anything on the surface that he might be diving for, so I figured he was fishing. After…
