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  • Dear David: : “What do you plan to do once you become a time millionaire?”

    March 7, 2025

      The cat's out of the bag. I'm retiring. The Best American Poetry 2025, edited by Terence Winch, will be the last book in the BAP series under my supervision. That's thirty-eight annual volumes…

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  • Losing it [getting it] over a non adhesive barricade tape [By Tracy Danison]

    March 7, 2025

    “Losing it” by Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King. Photo © Christian Altorfer Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King get it just right with Losing it, their sound and dance performance exploring the experience…

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  • The Romanticism of Edna St. Vincent Millay: “For unremembered lads. . .”

    March 6, 2025

    By Edna St. Vincent Millay   What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full…

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  • I. B. Singer on the sexual organs

    March 6, 2025

        "The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. The eye or the ear seldom sabotage  you. An eye will not stop seeing if it doesn't like what it…

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  • “No truth to the rumor” at Columbia

    March 5, 2025

    We're grateful to Adela Quant (not her real name) who leaked this exchange of correspodence to us.   <<< To the Office of the President:   Don't you think that the university should discipline…

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  • The Romanticism of Dylan Thomas

    March 4, 2025

    Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take meUp to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,     In the moon that is always rising,          Nor that riding to sleep     I…

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