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Music Lessons (Joseph P. Kahn interviews David Lehman for the Boston Globe)
The poet and author of “A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs’’ leads the Boston Musical Theater troupe in a Great American Songbook celebration tonight at the Paramount Theatre. Q. What will you be doing onstage?…
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Falling for Books in Booklyn II: The Book Cover vs. New Translation Conundrum (by Jane Lee)
As I sit down to eat my soon du boo chigae and read “Woman in White,” 4 proper nouns keep popping into my head: “Lydia Davis” and “Madame Bovary.” I already have a copy…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Peter Conners, Publisher, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ed note: This is the second post in our "Meet the Press" series for which poet Nin Andrews will interview editors of small presses. Today Nin interviews Peter Conners (photo), publisher of BOA Editions – sdh NA: I…
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Yeats on Happiness; Late Autumn; and a Bear [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, There are lots of songs and poems that talk about how melancholia can crash suddenly the world on top of your head and crush you to bed, but only a few…
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“Geranium” [by Claudia Burbank]
Thank you for the dead geranium, redmemory of a short-stemmed city.For nickel shows, tea rooms, the rotten-eggmill-smell that crept between the fretted sheets.For elms that divided our limbs with dusk,and twisted things in ash…
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Ben and Amy Read Chapbooks
Here are some chapbooks we like. Maybe this will make you read them. The End of Waste and The Harrowing Halychyna by Curtis Jensen Self-published. See curtisinterruptus.blogspot.com. Poems: Welcome to the greatest “zine”…
