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The Perfect Headline & Lede
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR STOCKS COVER STORY "We're in for more of the same over coming months, our group of market strategists predicts." — from Barron's, September 6, 2010
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A Different Center [by Dante Micheaux]
The envy of all other arts organizations (because of its titanic wealth), the Poetry Foundation “aspires to alter the perception that poetry is a marginal art, and to make it directly relevant to the…
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The Ghost in the Martini
Anthony Hecht has a poem called "The Ghost in the Martini." Great title, no? John Cheever has a story in which the first taste of a perfectly chilled martini is the protagonist's best moment…
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Canary [by Lera Auerbach]
CANARY So yellow as ifdefending this colorwas its only quest;as if painted by an artist,obsessed,unaccustomedto shade;as if stitched by mid-summer’s sun;made with delicate silk in the ancient country long gone,the canary swingson its wooden swing,claiming its cage(golden princein…
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Lost, Eyes Open [by Dante Micheaux]
“From that time forward a profound change set within me.” —Edward Carpenter, after reading Leaves of Grass “Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men…
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This just in . . . a terrible loss for Amy Lemmon and for all of us.
We received the sad news that Robert Bowen, who was married to poet Amy Lemmon, died from injuries sustained in a terrible accident. Robert was hit by a truck while riding his bicycle in…
