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“Brush Up Your Berlin” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar TUNING UP - AUTUMN 2009 Brush Up Your Berlin And beware of kiss-me-I’m-poetical junk By David Lehman | September 1, 2009 The practice of poetry ruled my life from the time I entered college.…
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Letter to Cummins from the Island of Idyllwild [by David Lehman and David St. John]
Letter to Cummins from the Island of Idyllwild Dear Jim, forgive the long delay in writingBut the feasts go on from dawn to dawnAnd the natives insist on feeding us by hand,…
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“Lulu’s Back in Town” [with Fats Waller]
Fats Waller Live in 1935 You and I both know why“all my blondes and brunettes”become“all my Harlem coquettes”when Fats Waller sings“Lulu’s Back in Town”after playing it on the pianoin 1935. Think of that: in…
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“The Pineapple of Success” [by Mitch Sisskind]
He reached the pinnacle of successBut the pineapple of success stillEscaped him. So what exactly wasThe elusive pineapple of success?There seemed to be no answer untilHe saw how the pineapple of successWas…
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Ajanaé Dawkins: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Happy Hour with My Mother “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that supposed to mean?” – Toni Morrison I…
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The Maritime Escape
Name the author and the book: “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin…
