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  • In Honor of the late Larry Fagin (1937-2017): “Faded Spirit”

    May 27, 2017

    Larry Fagin died this morning. I asked Charles North to pick one of Larry's poems that we could post in his honor today. — DL Faded Spirit     He buttonholed you and told…

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  • “On Carrying a Spare Umbrella” [By Sean Speers]

    May 26, 2017

    I don’t believe in fate, but I don’t tempt itby lending umbrellas. It could rain, or worse, you could fall in love with me for allthe wrong reasons. Don’t expect me to keep you…

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  • Memorial Day Weekend Reading Recommendation: “Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder, and Madness” by Diane Cameron

    May 25, 2017

    Diane Cameron I read Diane Cameron's story about her stepfather last summer and have been thinking about it ever since. Donald Watkins, a former Marine, returned in 1939 from military service in China and…

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  • “Solitude” [by Thomas Moody]

    May 19, 2017

    I always need someoneto tell I want to be left alone

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  • ICYMI: David Lehman reads from “Poems in the Manner Of”

    May 16, 2017

    In case you missed the recent reading at the NYU Bookstore, you can watch below as David reads from Poems in the Manner Of  Thank you Yael Yisraeli of the NYU Bookstore for hosting…

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  • Braided Interior: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Heisenberg’s Salon by Susan Lewis

    May 15, 2017

    Heisenberg’s SalonSusan LewisBlazeVox Books, 2017 Susan Lewis’s new collection of prose poems engages the complex routines and the constantly shifting contours of daily life in the twenty-first century with great humor, terror, anger, and…

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