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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Seven): Allan Peterson [by Angela Ball]
A HORSE REMEMBERS A horse remembers none of its ancestors heels ascending to splint bones and knows not its namesake in the sea It cannot see itself through history as…
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Things I’ve Missed: Tim Seibles, Charles Simic & Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
Maybe it's just my age, maybe it's the era we're living in, but these last few years have been tough, and I'm not even thinking of covid or politics–I'm not even going to mention…
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Natalie Shapero: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ Sunshower Some people say the devil is beating his wife. Some people say the devil is pawing his wife.…
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“Ithaca”: 16 Sonnets [by David Lehman]
Ithaca by David Lehman Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage.—Joachim du Bellay 1 Happy as Ulysses is he who ventures forth,who leaves behind his idols and his homelandand mourns the loss…
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“Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O’Hara” by Jennifer Maiden [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
“Chatty abstraction” is how Eileen Myles described the defining quality of New York School poetry in an essay in the Fall 2003 issue of Mississippi Review. “John Ashbery heard John Cage's randomness of composition…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 29, 2023
For today’s post I want to congratulate Dong Li on his first poetry book The Orange Tree, winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, to be published by the University of Chicago Press…
