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Trochaic Theory Favors Sanders; Clinton Gets an Asterisk; Ted Cruz Doth Lose; etc. [by David Lehman]
Trochaic theory, the political forecasting system based on poetic metrics, which correctly predicted Obama's presidential victories in 2008 and 2012, has shortened the odds on Bernie Sanders — if, and it's a big if,…
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Summer Camp Quiz [by David Lehman]
1) Bug juice is a) an experiment conducted by the nature counselorb) insect repellent for canoe tripsc) the fruit drink that is served at mealsd) none of the above 2) The song beginning "Great…
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Word Counts in Novels (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Among the vast number of contradictory phenomena I don’t understand there is this: Why do Americans seem to have a decreasing attention span (witness the popularity of tweets and the fact that interest in…
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Union Square Farmers Market Encounter: Only in New York or is this a Paul Violi Poem? [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Woman: Do you have pullet eggs? Vendor: Yes. Woman: Great! I'll take some. Me: I'd like some too. Woman: Would you consider splitting a dozen? I live alone and half a dozen is just…
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The Cakes! (and other perks of writing in a restaurant) [Emily Deming, Writer-in-Residence at Mallard Cottage]
A Writer’s Residency in a restaurant involves, at times revolves around, food: fueled by it, inspired by it, writing about it. Part of the (verbal) contract arranged for this residency was a sort of…
