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On Working with W. H. Auden: Illuminating Interview with J. Chester Johnson in Illuminations
Back in 2012, we posted two articles by poet J. Chester Johnson about his work with W.H. Auden on the revisions to the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. You can read Johnson's posts here and…
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Ahoy, Jerry Garcia! [by Alan Ziegler]
(Jerry Garcia died 20 years ago on August 9.) One evening in 1971, a date and I are walking along Riverside Drive in the low 100’s, overlooking the park. We don’t have a…
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Question: What do you get when you give your host . . .
a tote bag by poet Nicole Santalucia from TicTacTote: filled with a set of Saltlickers from poet Jennifer L. Knox And a volume of the Best American Poetry 2015, by lots of poets?: Answer:…
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Dueling Lobsters [by Alan Ziegler]
The lobster tank is sparsely populated. It is unlikely that any of them will make it through the night. One of the lobsters scuttles across the tank and attacks another. I wonder what brought…
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BAP Exclusive: “The Ugly Stepsister” poem by Denise Duhamel, Illustrations by Ellen Amaral
Click through to read the poem and see the illustrations. Click on the individual image to see it in high resolution (they're spectacular! sdh) The Ugly Stepsister You don't know what it was…
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Composers [by Lera Auerbach]
There are only two types of composers: composing composers and decomposing composers.
