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A celebration of BAP and launch of BAP 2025 at the 92nd Street Y in NYC September 4, 2025
https://www.92ny.org/event-class-detail-pages/tisch-center/tisch-unterberg-poetry/events/d/david-lehman-and-terence-winch Overview David Lehman and others: The Best American Poetry with Elaine Equi, Mary Jo Salter, Patricia Davis-Muffett, Greg Delanty, Joanna Fuhrman, Henry Israeli, Brionne Janai, Pádraig Ó Tuama Jana Prikryl, Matthew Rohrer and…
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Erik Kennedy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________________________________________ Classic Car Magazines You’ll usually find the problemsyou’re looking for. My father had a sunflower-yellow 1974 Triumph Spitfireup on blocks until the day he died, and he hasn’t evendied yet. Not much wrong…
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“A Dog by the Ears” [by George Bradley]
A Dog by the Ears A man who meddles in a quarrel not his ownis like one who takes a passing dog by the earssays the Scripture, and I have quarreled with life,grumbling and…
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“Why the ‘Best American Poetry’ series is ending with BAP 2025” [by Erik Pedersen in “The Orange County Register”]
Why the ‘Best American Poetry’ series is ending, says David Lehman David Lehman is the series editor of “The Best American Poetry” books, which will cease publication with the 2025 edition. (Photo credit John…
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The Black Car [a “Next Line, Please” prompt from May 3, 2017]
The Black Car For our theme this week, I took the suggestion of Lee McAden Robinson and proposed that we use as starting point the penultimate line of C. D. Wright’s poem “Dust”: “I have seen…
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“I have but one heart. . .” [Vic Damone]
"I Have but One Heart" was Vic Damone's breakout song. He tried for the part of Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather.They cast Al Martino instead. And what song did they have him sing at…
