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  • Tales of the Eighties: Sewing Mother-in-Law

    May 28, 2015

        Erin has asked me to pick up a dress that she bought and left to be altered at Fowad, a discount clothing store on 96th and Broadway. I make my way through volumes of knock-offs…

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  • “In My End Is My Beginning” [by David Lehman]

    May 28, 2015

    Here is this week's challenge on "Next Line, Please," sponsored by The American Scholar. It is, you wiill see, very Auden-centric, though it begins with a quote from Eliot. To enter, click here — and…

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  • “In My End Is My Beginning” [by David Lehman]

    May 28, 2015

    Here is this week's challenge on "Next Line, Please," sponsored by The American Scholar. It is, you wiill see, very Auden-centric, though it begins with a quote from Eliot. To enter, click here — and…

    Continue reading…

  • jokes, questions, sandwiches in jubilat

    May 26, 2015

    jubilat's sensibility is often curious, quizzical, interested in guessing, as poets frequently do— and I’ve been thinking, recently, about what guessing does to one's imagination — not only the acceptance of ‘not-knowing’ for certain, but also, and…

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  • jokes, questions, sandwiches in jubilat

    May 26, 2015

    jubilat's sensibility is often curious, quizzical, interested in guessing, as poets frequently do— and I’ve been thinking, recently, about what guessing does to one's imagination — not only the acceptance of ‘not-knowing’ for certain, but also, and…

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  • Monday Comic by Nin Andrews

    May 26, 2015

    (ed note: This comic comes to you on Tuesday because of the Memorial Day weekend. sdh) This comic was inspired by Chapter 1997 in David Lehman's, State of the Art, in which he compares…

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