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Tales of Aging: Youth-full Pain [by Alan Ziegler]
I trip and scrape my knee against the pavement. During the two-second delay between the act and the pain, I remember crying as a little boy when I scraped my knee. As the pain…
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Best American Poetry 2015 West Coast Launch Party
October 9 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Hugo House 1634 11th AvenueSeattle, WA 98122 Phone: 206.322.7030 We're pleased to announce the exclusive Seattle book launch for the premier anthology of contemporary American poetry. The 2015…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
I thought of this comic when I was reading The Paris Review article by David Orr on “The Road Not Taken,” that suggests this often quoted poem is one of the most misread poems…
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“The Radical Pessimism of Dashiell Hammett” [by David Lehman]
The Radical Pessimism of Dashiell Hammett The stories of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler once wrote, “gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.” Photo…
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“The Bad Glazier”: Lehman translates Baudelaire for “Antioch Review”
<<< There are people who live entirely in their minds and are totally impractical, utterly abstract, who can nevertheless, under the sway of some mysterious force, act so decisively even they cannot believe it.…
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Lyrics [ Amy Lingafelter ]
I like when he says With no lovin’ in our souls and no money in our coats. I like when they say Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels. I…
