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Best Russian Poetry; Atlanta Review Russia Issue, Part 2: The Translators
OK, so how many of you go straight for the bios at the back of the mag? I know, as an editor, I do. (More generally, I also read the footnotes first, to familiarize…
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Big Doings at the Poetry Foundation [by Susan Harrison]
The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation has named an interim president and a new board chairman. Henry Bienen, acting president, served as president of Northwestern University for fifteen years from 1995 to 2009. "I started out…
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Best Russian Poetry; Russia Issue of Atlanta Review (Spr. 2015, Vol. XXI, No. 2)
I owe the pleasure of this week to the evening spent at Cornelia Street Café at the back table with David Lehman and Lawrence Joseph (his friend of 50 years!) Jump cut: When I recently asked David might he…
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Alex Cigale, Guest Author July 13-17
Drawing by Dastan Abaskavov This week we welcome Alex Cigale as our guest author. Alex's English-language poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, and The Literary Reviews, and online in The Common, Drunken Boat and…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
In The State of the Art, David Lehman writes: "Whitman recalls the moment when, as a boy alone on the shore of Long Island, he heard two mockingbirds sing, and then one stopped singing and the…
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Progress down on the rue de Belleville [by Tracy Danison}
My mother told me years back that things are better nowadays than in the past. Though I reckon she was thinking of the bad-tempered draught-horses that scared her as a little girl, her words…
