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In Defense of Bob Dylan? [by D.L.]
(Ed note: In a file of rejected letters to the editor from 2011, this epistle emerged. It was never published, perhaps because of the editors’ not unreasonable suspicion that the undersigned was either a…
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“Twenty Questions” [by David Lehman]
Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason That Achilles died young? Who gets more fun out of sex, The man or the woman? (Be sure to explain…
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Friday February 21st: i pocket a tangerine [by Julia Cohen]
This is my last day with you! And it’s already late afternoon. I’ve been in meetings and then working on a syllabus for Experiments in Literature for the CCC system here. Sorry. There is…
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A Modest Proposal for Poets
There seems to be a trend and maybe it will hit the tipping point and something good will happen for the poets out there bouncing from one adjunct position to another, getting by without…
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New School MFAs Go Places: Justin Sherwood, MFA ’12, in Conversation with Academy of American Poets Executive Director Jen Benka, MFA ’07
By the time she arrived at The New School, Jen Benka, MFA '07, had five years of experience as Managing Director of Poets & Writers, and a published book of poetry, A Box of…
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Words that do work: Creating The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival [by Lise Menn]
(Ed note: Today we begin a monthly series of posts by the editors and contributors to The Widow's Handbook, which we first learned about when Bruce Kawin joined us a guest author. The first…
