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Hooray for Captain Spaulding: Meet the Schnorrer [a cartoon in words]
NOTE: This poem written as a potential cartoon – lacking the drawings. Artists are encouraged to consider illustrating the following. The paintings adorning these lines, by Joe Brainard and David Sallle, should give you…
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“Summer Afternoon” [by David Shapiro]
I wrote a poem endorsing Henry James's view that "summer afternoon" was the sweetest phrase in the language and David Shapiro responded with this riff in October 2008. 10 / 25 / 08 Saturday…
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In Retrospect: Dan Chiasson’s take Harold Bloom’s “Best of the Best”
When The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 came out in Spring 1998, it caused a critical firestorm with much hysteria on the part of reviewers offended not by the poems guest editor…
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John Gallaher: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Garlands or Crowns of, Placed on Mouths of Wells You don’t want people thinking you’re…
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George Bilgere picks a poem by Mark Perlberg
Real Estate by Mark Perlberg How odd to look across the way and note the Hymans, neighbors for a generation, are gone. Strange not to see a glimmer of light in any window as…
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Jonathan Baumbach: A Quick Recollection [by David Lehman]
Back in 1975, I held my first full-time teaching job. It was at Brooklyn College, and while most of my courses were for undergraduates, I did teach a seminar in the MFA program replacing…
