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On the Intentional Walk [by Johnny Chinnici]
“I don’t like intentional walks,” my mother-in-law says, looking up from her iPad to reveal that she has been paying more attention to the game than I realized. “I always hope the next batter…
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Tonight at KGB: Dorothea Lasky + Justin Marks
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Justin Marks + Dorothea Lasky Monday, Oct 7, 2013 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black…
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A Modest Proposal [by David Lehman and Stacey Harwood]
Several months ago an idea surfaced on social media proposing that the Poetry Foundation use some of its vast wealth to fund a low-cost health-insurance program for poets in need. The idea has stuck…
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Johnny Chinnici, Guest Author October 7-11
photo (c) Erin Roberts This week we welcome John Chinnici as our guest author. Johnny works as a writer and editor for literary and educational non-profits. He holds an MFA from The New School,…
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In the 30th Year of His Age: Francois Villon, Rascal Poet [by David Lehman]
The original bad-boy poet roamed the countryside of fifteenth-century France. Francois Villon narrowly escaped the gallows; a vagabond and a thief, he cast his major poems in the form of satiric versions of a…
