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It’s time for a refresher lesson on “OY”
It occurred to me after reading this article in today's New York Times that it might be time for a refresher on the proper uses of "Oy" so I pulled these helpful illustrations by Mitch…
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A Partial Autobiography of Funny in Ten Takes [by Alan Ziegler]
1) My first attempt at physical comedy; age 4: The Set-up. With my family in Manhattan for the first time, I am told that the Empire State Building is a skyscraper. As we get…
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Caged But Free … Lehman has picked line five of the crowd-sourced sonnet. You can write line six.
David Lehman has picked line five of the crowd-sourced sonnet-in-progress over at the American Scholar. You have until November 15 to write line six. Here's the sonnet to date: Our dreams as disparate as our…
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Madame Bovary 2 [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
If anyone ever needed Debtor's Anonymous it was Emma Bovary. She loved aqua lampshades and hosiery made of pink silk. Her husband was clueless re: The big A. Brazen cuckolds slept stress- free in…
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A Poetic Form Based on Your Phone Number [by Robert Schultz]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOV. 9, 2015 ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF A NEW POETIC FORM The Poertner . . . is a syllabic poem of 10 lines in three stanzas, in which the number of syllables…
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Thanks for the Shout-Out!
One of the most interesting things to watch as [David] Lehman's forewords fare forward thought a quarter of a century is the increasing recognition of the Internet as a valid site for publication. The…
