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Financial Literacy: A Multiple-Choice Quiz [by David Lehman]
Have we taught a generation of college graduates to vilify capitalism without doing it the honor of knowing how it works? Spot checks at New York’s Penn Station reveal that a vast majority of…
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Name a Song (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Hey Bleaders Collaboration continues. Picture and 6 Stanzas. In other news, Cry if you want to, Hecht said to herself, who wouldn't listen, and maybe you. Love, Jennifer Rapture The two-tone girl, mouth wide open,…
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“In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton” (Nightboat Books) [by David Lehman]
We welcome the publication of In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, a posthumous collection by a wonderful poet who died in 1994, entirely too young. The publisher is Nightboat…
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Two Poems by Kirsten Chen
At end, I lied I am abend when we’re off drunk againOr swimming in sincere blue oceans—gists, all of them foreign. When in the door stepsThree of my kin, weird-eyed with essence. What’s that?I…
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Looking Back at Dylan (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday on May 24th almost coincides with the 50th anniversary of D.A. Pennebaker’s remarkable film Dont Look Back. To celebrate all this, the Morrison Hotel Gallery (at 116 Prince Street, 2nd…
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“The Perfect Guy” [by Lily Bowen]
The Perfect Guy He picks me up at eight in his mother’s BMW.He rolls up the sleeves of his maroon wool sweaterand orders an Old Fashioned. He's been drilling oilin Saudi Arabia and he…
