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Our Life in Poetry: Frank O’Hara
Last November, David Lehman and Mark Doty joined Michael Braziller in a round-table discussion of Frank O'Hara's life and work. You can watch a video of the evening here. It's terrific. — sdh
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“Not a mouth full of thick spit. . .” [by Kelly Bourdet]
Not a mouth full of thick spit,sure and unerring,or shoulder crashinginto door frames, not tonight. Not sure and easy, swift to carry. like to bustle, like to busy, like to love toswift and easy,…
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Satisfied with the Best (by Leslie McGrath)
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” ~Winston Churchill Oh Mr. Churchill, you were clearly not American, being so comfortable with the idea of a “best.” I should re-state: plain old…
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The Power of the Lightning (by Laura Orem)
This was going to be a post about the sanitization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but the events in Arizona have altered its focus. Saturday's tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19…
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Under a Certain Little Cloud
I’ll begin with an apology to Szymborska and her translator Joanna Trzeciak for borrowing, then stamping my snow boot all over one of my favorite poems, “Under a Certain Little Star.”This is what poets…
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Leslie McGrath, Guest Blogger January 9-22
This week we welcome Leslie McGrath as our guest blogger. Leslie’s poems have been widely published in the US, as well as in England, Ireland and Japan. Her literary interviews have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle and…
