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What is History? Multiple Choice [by David Lehman]
The multiple-choice exam as an ad hoc poetic form has always attracted me. John Ashbery did clever and funny things with it. Our Freud Quiz is as much an homage to the multiple choice…
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Cindy Hochman: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ Inner Life (With Sabotage) This poem will be intentionally vague. Candlewicks flicker. Chemicals misfire. Crossed wires…
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Cindy Hochman: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ Inner Life (With Sabotage) This poem will be intentionally vague. Candlewicks flicker. Chemicals misfire. Crossed wires…
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“Kyiv” [by Howard Altmann]
Kyiv I don’t believe in poetrythe poet said to the planttrying to be a treein the rubble of the city. I believe in your assemblythe poet said to the sticks of woodholding up the…
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“Kyiv” [by Howard Altmann]
Kyiv I don’t believe in poetrythe poet said to the planttrying to be a treein the rubble of the city. I believe in your assemblythe poet said to the sticks of woodholding up the…
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W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, eighty-four years later. Can you picture Auden at The Dizzy Club, that "dive" on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland…