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What is a Jewish Poem? [by Deborah Ager]
The role of Jews in contemporary American poetry simply underscores the role of all poets—to speak the unspoken and the unspeakable, as beautifully as possible. As perpetual outsiders, Jewish poets may be especially well…
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Deborah Ager, Guest Author December 2-6
This week we welcome Deborah Ager as our guest author. Deborah is the author of Midnight Voices (2009) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) and Old Flame: Ten…
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A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 9)
from Crying In Early Infancy 16 Sex chemistry is elegant and subversive, likehow it comes crawling out of a hole wherethe idea of ‘Christine’ swallows itselfand suddenly begins…
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DECEMBER LIMERICKS [by Anthony Madrid]
❃ 31.There was an old person from Lawndale,First cousin to Senator Mondale.She voted for Carter, but said it was harderTo jump up and down about Mondale. ❃ 32.There was an old man at O’Hare,Whose…
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The Fourth Night: At the Lehman Center
— sdh ed. note: This post originally appeared on 12/26/08
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“Happy 178, Mark Twain!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
MARK TWAIN (11/30/1835) Mark Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Twain.He lost | his voice, | so can’t | complain. He spoke | of rea | son to | the Dane.Mark Twain, Mark Twain,…
