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Introducing JA
Four introductions to poetry readings given by birthday boy John Ashbery. . . .. with John everything seems significant. "Mountain ash mindlessly dropping its berries" is one phrase in which he consciously puts himself…
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Antigone, in 26 words [by David Lehman]
Antigone Against brutal Creon,doll establishesfugitive greatness.His internaljustice, knowledgelaw mean nothing,only piety.Questing revenge,she triumphs,uttering virginalwounds extravagant,yearning’s zenith. See also https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2023/01/the-tears-of-antigone-an-astrological-profile-by-david-lehman.html
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“alkaway” by Ella O’Keefe [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
The Judith Wright Poetry Prize was established in 2007 by Overland magazine, one of Australia’s more inspired quarterlies and among the nation’s best homes for poetry, as an annual award recognizing new and emerging…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: July 26, 2023
On August 1, Graywolf will publish Roger Reeves’ Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. This is a gift of a book written by a poet with searing intelligence, whose escape into language—OutKast and Sun Ra, Toni…
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“Death, the Theory” [by David Lehman]
Death, the Theory The imp of the perverse was a deceiving elf.The headaches came more oftenwith other blows the pills couldn't soften.I was a fat girl once myself. When I got out of the…
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. . .is the thing with feathers [by Stacey Lehman]
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. — Mignon McLaughlinThe Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008) — sdh
