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Gift Giving, Ithaca Edition [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
I'll be shopping locally this season but before I feature my favorite vendors, I hope your lists will include poetry books. I can recommend without reservation these titles: Here are a few of my…
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“No Alarms” by Dan Hogan [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Reading Dan Hogan’s debut collection Secret Third Thing (Cordite, 2023), I kept thinking about Apollinaire, particularly his short poem “Hotel.” Here it is in full: My room looks like a cage The sun sticks its…
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This week’s harvest
"God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America." — Bismarck "The greatest danger to most men is not that they aim too high and miss the mark, but…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-Four): David Shapiro [by Angela Ball]
AFTER RYOKAN In my bowl In the thin snow In front of my windowIn the window skyIn the blue distanceIn the scattered door In every quarter of theevening landIn the pool near your roomIn…
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NEXT LINE, PLEASE “What a Strange Path: 3 New Prompts” [by David Lehman]
Next Line, Please Three new prompts By David Lehman | December 16, 2024 Marika Green, left, and Martin LaSalle in Pickpocket, 1959 We headlined our previous poetry challenge with a line from Virginia Woolf: “I have had my…
