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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 4, 2023
Erin Marie Lynch’s debut poetry collection Removal Acts is nothing short of astonishing. A descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Lynch’s title refers to the 1963 Federal Act that banished Dakota people from…
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Wild Afternoons (15 years on] [by Angela Patrinos]
Yesterday afternoon David Lehman presented “Wild Nights! The Poetry of Eros” in the New School’s Lang Auditorium. The event was the first of the “Fridays at One” series hosted by the IRP, the Institute…
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Tom Disch’s “Letters to Dead Editors”
On July 1, 2008, at 11:16AM, Tom Disch revealed God's "other" Big Idea of the day. He called it "Letters to Dead Editors." <<<Another were-there-but-world-enough theme anthology. It was to have been a whole…
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Ama Codjoe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ The Deer Walking alone in a forest, I came upon a deer—this was…
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“Flesh 78” [by Herbert Engelhardt, 1925-2021]
Brancusi hinted itGiacometti stinted it Miró laughed at itDegas choreographed it Bosch hated itBruegel skated it Watteau crêpe de chine covered itManet gape to dine uncovered it Botticelli virgin Spring emergedTitian love-in fling resurged…
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“Caress” [by Ron Padgett]
In a dream I caressed youand when I woke upI caressed the memoryof the dream.I never caressed youin “real life.”I never even wanted tothough I was closeto liking the idea of caressing you.If I…
