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  • David Yezzi on Rachel Wetzsteon

    August 30, 2010

    Death is not the end when a poet dies. What we dearly miss is everything they have to tell us about the minutiae of life, about head colds and deadlines, restaurants and articles, embarrassments…

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  • Mad Men Haiku [by Stacey Harwood]

    August 30, 2010

    for Ken Tucker The Mad Men womenare the grownups while the menare the big babies.

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  • “Scenes from a Voyage” [by John Tranter]

    August 30, 2010

    The passengers are delirious, staring at the sea.The slide presentation featured the Deutsche Bahn AGthen the attendees took off their clothes… the newsspread like wildfire through the luxury liner –Ronald, stop them! Don’t shout!…

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  • “My Life Is a Test” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    August 30, 2010

    Here's another question from my autobiography in the form of an SAT test. After you've had a look at it, you can watch the explanatory video featuring the kind participation of my friend Alexandra.…

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  • BANK HOLIDAY WITH MY BAROQUE PAPA [by Dante Micheaux]

    August 30, 2010

    In a 1999 essay published in The Southern Review, literary critic Laurence Goldstein implies Robert Hayden’s “Perseus” to be the greatest poem in the world. Though it may not reach such titular extravagance for…

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  • The time is right

    August 29, 2010

    There's no time like the present for a martini with a twist. avec les sept voleurs de Chicago

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