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“Shadow Behind Eclipse” (for John Ashbery) [by Anne Waldman]
for John Ashbery When he died, a temperature went down Trees in the sky above Flatirons, tremor there Oh didn’t, then did See? We were driving in the canyon moons ago …
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“He was from the shore . . . ” [by Philip Roth]
"He was from the shore. There was sand and ocean, horizon and sky, daytime and nighttime–the light, the dark, the tide, the stars, the boats, the sun, the mists, the gulls. There were the…
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“The Ideal Reader for Jennifer L. Knox (A Fellow American Down on His Luck)” [by Jennifer L. Knox]
Our research shows the ideal reader for Jennifer L. Knox is a man, dressed like a woman, is over 40 but wider than a mile, 9 feet tall, all that, is a Camaro owner,…
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After Koch 3 (by Mitch Sisskind)
At first he was Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers But he kept on doing it and by the end he was in The Library of America – two volumes, mind you. “Here…
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It Happens Once a Year: Elaine Equi wins the Daily Double
Invocation Come Inspiration, sweet as two beautiful hookersin a dream.Don't go girls — even if you don't know a thingabout poetry, at least help me decidewhat to wear — Elaine Equi (whose birthday is…
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After Koch 2 (by Mitch Sisskind)
There was a day I mused to the class How making love with Queen Elizabeth Would be interesting – surely at Columbia I was the only professor who thusly mused And I often mused,…
