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“Birthday Poem for Ariana Reines, Beginning with Two Lines Written by Jonathan Swift in His Sleep” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
ARIANA REINES (10/24)I follow no man, a hawk in my fist:Nor am I brilliant whenever I list.The saints on their mats | said prayers to the goddessNot too effective, if we’re being honestThe goddess…
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ASS Ball at OLPH, Maple Shade, NJ, c. 1981 [by Daniel Nester]
At Our Lady of Perpetual Help elementary, the game we played for years was Wall Ball. All you needed was a wall and a ball. Actually, that’s the generic term we used, when one…
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The Inquisitive Eater: “Comment String to a Recipe for Soy-Braised Korean Short Ribs” [by Stacey Harwood]
kitchen vixen: These were delicious. I made them over the weekend for my husband’s game night. I made them the day before, then skimmed the fat before reheating. Then I served them with a…
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Frank Lima (1939-2013)
Painting by Wynn Chamberlain—featuring Joe Brainard, Frank O’Hara, Joe LeSueur, and Frank Lima (standing) (1964) SEPTEMBER 18 by David Lehman Everything means something as the “countdown to the unknown” (Alan Greenspans’ phrase) continues for…
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The New Salon: Lucie Brock-Broido, in conversation with Charif Shanahan [by Rachel Lieff Axelbank]
photo (c) Timothy Liu There is no logical reason to believe that Lucie Brock-Broido’s first [public] reading in ten years was conceived and choreographed and carried out for the specific fulfillment of my own…
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Hump Day Highlights by Stacey Harwood
We're following the progress of Sandra Simonds' letter and Jenny Gropp Hess's petition to the Poetry Foundation asking for it to make more of a financial commitment to poets in need. You can follow…
