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Who Says? [by Jennifer L. Knox]
Recently during a Q&A session, I was holding forth to a room full of students on the Myth of Feelings—that feelings were the prime mover of a poem, and that every element of a…
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Point Counterpoint: Amy Gerstler and David Lehman on Mad Men Season 7, Episode 5
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:03 AM David Lehman Wrote: Sword Fighting with Golf Clubs Dear Joan, Prior to watching the episode, I had three things on my mind: — Everyone hates Lou,…
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LSE versus NYS Debate the Burning Issues of the Day [by David Lehman]
Debate teams representing the London School of Economics [LSE] and the New York School of Poets [NYS] will go into action in neutral Montreal on Friday, May 23 of this year, a spokesperson for…
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Next Line, Please: Help the American Scholar Write a Sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a Shakespearean sonnet. David Lehman supplied the first line and picks subsequent lines from reader submissions. Click…
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Meat the Poet: Jennifer Tamayo [by Jennifer L. Knox]
Above: JT's "IM ALL ARMS IM ALL IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM…
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Is That Your Final Answer? [by Charles Coe]
Whenever I start to worry that the human race is becoming too intelligent, I take a day off from work to camp out on the sofa and check out some daytime television. I especially…
