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  • Happy birthday, Dorothy Parker (and Stacey Lehman! — on August 18)

    August 18, 2023

    Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker & Your "quondam dreams" Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind;I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.I hate my legs, I hate my hands,I do not yearn for lovelier lands.I…

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  • Happy birthday, Dorothy Parker (and Stacey Lehman! — on August 18)

    August 18, 2023

    Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker & Your "quondam dreams" Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind;I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.I hate my legs, I hate my hands,I do not yearn for lovelier lands.I…

    Continue reading…

  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 16, 2023

    August 16, 2023

    Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic was published yesterday by Penguin. The book-length poem is broken up into three sections, with the speaker telling us “I used to man the Information/Desk in the center of…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 16, 2023

    August 16, 2023

    Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic was published yesterday by Penguin. The book-length poem is broken up into three sections, with the speaker telling us “I used to man the Information/Desk in the center of…

    Continue reading…

  • Bukowski’s “Laughing Heart” (with commentary from various hands) on Buk’s birthday

    August 16, 2023

    Your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…

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  • Bukowski’s “Laughing Heart” (with commentary from various hands) on Buk’s birthday

    August 16, 2023

    Your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…

    Continue reading…

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