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Friday the 13th [by David Lehman]
It's Friday the 13th and I wonderhow the superstition got started.I'd always thought it was becausethere were thirteen diners at theLast Supper but I recently saw adocumentary about the KnightsTemplar according to whichKing Philip…
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TALES FROM UNDER THE PALAPA #1: The Forgotten Language [by Rex Weiner]
(Editor's note: As part of a series about new under-the-radar writing workshops, we've asked Rex Weiner, co-founder of the Todos Santos Writers Workshop to tell our readers about the experience of this magical place.…
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Fragments 169-183 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
169. He believed her orgasms were authentic, but he suspected she was faking her compassion: “Oh. Oh. Oh. Yes. Yes. Yes. You poor thing, you!” 170. Within the past hour, how many people passed…
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A Lost Gem is Found: “Something Wonderful May Happen: The New York School of Poets and Beyond.” Film with With John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, David Lehman, Charles Bernstein, and others . . .
Thank you Mitch Sisskind for alerting me to the availability of this film. — sdl
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Mitch Sisskind writes The Iliad! [with comments by David Lehman]
Iliad Old age, Tolstoy wrote, is the biggest surpriseIn a man's life. So true! Childhood hoursIn the ancient car I now recall, the hot months,Sox game on the radio, soporific Bob ElsonMumbling in the microphone,…
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New School Poetry Forum: Mitch Sisskind. Wednesday October 11, 2017, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Klein Conference Room, Room A510, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Room 510, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011More information here. This event is free. Mitch Sisskind, is a Los Angeles-based poet and fiction writer…
