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Muhammad Ali: Boxer, Poet – January 17, 1942-June 3, 2016
Freedom – Better Now Better far— from all I see— To die fighting to be free What more fitting end could be? Better surely than in some bed Where in broken health I'm led…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Joseph Spece of Fathom Books
DD: James Longenbach has written: “Wonder is the reinvention of humility, the means by which we fall in love with the world.” The poems you’ve published as the founding editor of SHARKPACK Annual oftentimes resist…
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Grizzly: spirit may persist after death
“Begging pardon”, “Begging pardon”, I think that’s what that girl sings, but it’s a murmur, far off, Just over the rumor of voices here and the smell of wine. She sings smoky and rich…
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Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe, Queen of June Geminis (Reprise) [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday is today), sang. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood…
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Guacamole Treatment [by Erroneous Anonymous]
GUACAMOLE TREATMENT [From The Infant Minstrel and his Peculiar Menagerie] There was once a man With such a long nose That his wife had mistaken it For a garden hose. When…
