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Simile of the day: from a conversation with John Ashbery
I continue to be inspired by Auden, Stevens, Bishop, MacNeice, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, etc., the list goes on, but I don’t often read them. Once something has inspired you, that’s it. Somebody (maybe…
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A Simile Contest is Like . . . [by David Lehman]
We're having a simile contest — a contest for the best short poem that is simile-driven. Either a poem consisting of all similes or a poem that goes to town with just one. Consider…
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A Simile Contest is Like . . . [by David Lehman]
We're having a simile contest — a contest for the best short poem that is simile-driven. Either a poem consisting of all similes or a poem that goes to town with just one. Consider…
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The State of the Art in 1992 (Revisited) [by David Lehman]
Here, from Poetry Daily, are the opening paragraphs of the foreword of The Best American Poetry 1992. From David Lehman's book, just out from the University of Pittsburgh Press,The State of the Art: A…
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The State of the Art in 1992 (Revisited) [by David Lehman]
Here, from Poetry Daily, are the opening paragraphs of the foreword of The Best American Poetry 1992. From David Lehman's book, just out from the University of Pittsburgh Press,The State of the Art: A…
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Halie Theoharides on Amelia Rosselli in jubilat
I had never heard of Amelia Rosselli until I began typesetting jubilat 27 but since then I have been wild about her poetry. Here is a picture of Amelia Rosselli that I made and here…
