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Hang Time : Best American Poetry 1990 revisited [Jake Adam York]
The blog, so often, is about now. But I am here, as Terrance Hayes writes, “because I never could get the hang of time.” • I wanted to begin my stay as guest blogger by…
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Jake Adam York, Guest Blogger July 17-23
This week we welcome Jake Adam York as our guest blogger. Jake is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005), winner of the 2005 Elixir Press Prize in Poetry, A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), winner…
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Goldfrapp, Stepmothers, Scissors, Brandon, Depeche Mode, & Why I Was Born (More or Less) This Way [by Neil de la Flor]
It took me longer than expected to write this post because I didn't want to write this post. Plus, I couldn't stop hula-hoop dancing and doggie style two-stepping to Goldfrapp's “Number One”. I am…
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“Girl Writing a Letter” [by William Carpenter]
A thief drives to the museum in his black van. The nightwatchman says Sorry, closed, you have to come back tomorrow.The thief sticks the point of his knife in the guard's ear.I haven't got…
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“Dear David” [by Herb Engelhardt]
So sorryAnd sympatheticTo your influenza siegeEach time I get a sniffle, I hear Death at my doorSome day it will be thereIn the meantime, as the incorrigible sybarite…
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Disco [by Neil de la Flor]
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to disco. After reading 37 essays about District 9, Kafka's The…
