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Let’s Make Merry [with Archie Rand at cocktail time]
Something’s cooking in the bathtub Made for England’s Basil Rathbub Let us tipple Bols or Boodles With vermouth or lukshen noodles And with Plymouth or with Bombay Cherries jubilee a flambé Let us throw…
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Lehman and Brooks Slug it Out Over Paul de Man in the New York Review of Books
Here is David Lehman's response to Peter Brooks' review of The Strange Case of Paul de Man which ran on April 3, 2014. Lehman's letter appears in the May 8, 2014 issue of the NYRB. To…
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Day Five of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: Daniel Nester Interviews Me
Daniel Nester Interviews Me You write sestinas. Why the sestina? What attracts you to the sestina?How many sestinas have you written? Are you a sestinanut? Do you remember the first sestina you ever…
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The Genius of Rats: Advice from a Poet [by Nick Courtright]
Now let’s turn the lens on our own personal folly, and take a visit to psychologists’ and behavioral economists’ Land of Advice. Maybe with some study we can stumble into a few methods that…
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Day Four of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “A Sestina”
A Sestina mustbe 39 lines long,lean,fast.Blendedwords are OK, but the wordsmustbe splendid whether short or long.Ride fast,lean forward, lean hard on every word,hold fast to this mustangas long as you can, the endeavor dependson…
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Falling in Love with McDonald’s and Other Absurdities [by Nick Courtright]
One fascinating match-making experiment, and one that can be conducted anywhere with a decent number of people (new enrollees in an MFA program?! or at a particularly bloodless faculty meeting?!), is to affix to…
