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Next Line, Please: This Week’s Challenge [by David Lehman]
<<< Word golf has always been a reliable way to produce inspiration. This alternative to rhyme—in which the end-words spell out a progression from, say, “kiss” to “love,” moving one letter at a time—combines…
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Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration: Juan Felipe Herrera
francisco mariposa, by maya gonzalez Walking (Tenochtitlan, DF) with Francisco X. Alarcón, 1978 by Juan Felipe Herrera Coyolxauki Escavations downtown Mexico DF here archeologists bend down below us hard hats women and…
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from “Love’s Banquet” [by David Lehman]
<<< I sip from the cup that Keats says is full of the warm south, mirth, and sun, “With beaded bubbles winking at the brim / And purple-stained mouth,” and I recommend Byron’s remedy…
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Save the Date: Monday, March 6 David Lehman and Katha Pollitt at KGB Bar, 7:30 PM
Katha Pollitt & David Lehman KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street (near the NW corner of 4th Street and 2nd Avenue). 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7 PM FREE…
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A Supposedly Horrible Thing I’ll Probably Do Again—Part Four (Notes)
Last night I watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua Two with my four year old daughter and 7 year old son. The kids taught me the points in the movie I was supposed to laugh. If…
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Katha Pollitt and David Lehman to read at KGB Bar March 6
Monday, March 6, 2017 KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (near the NW corner of 4th Street and 2nd Avenue). 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7 PM .
