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Zoom Golly Golly Golly
Next Monday, Bastille Day, le quatorze juillet, Claire Barnes and Caterina Domenghini have organized a program at Oxford University On 'What Makes an American Classic?" Zoom in to listen: Monday 14 July, 5 PM…
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Frost at Midnight [by David Lehman]
Frost at Midnight White skies, tall pines, blue sprucegive way to evening darkness total.I read Robert Frost’s “New Hampshire,”twice, getting stuck on a line where “Nothing”is a thing or event, like “the nothing that…
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The Cancer Quiz: Part One [by Russell Kolnikov]
Who said it: The white race is the cancer of human history a) the author of Illness as Metaphorb) the author of Tropic of Cancerc) Maod) Malcolm Xe) Franz Fanon in The Wretched of the…
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Saperlipopette! Nearly already September and still no deeds! [By Tracy Danison]
Si l’art est partout, il est aussi dans cette boîte (“If art is everywhere, it is also in this box”) by BEN. Photo © Ben Vautier, Adagp, Paris 2025 “So I bunged the thing…
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“shoelace” [by Andrei Codrescu]
a real concern may turn out in a dream as “to be continued”or make you sleep soundly for being common currencysplintering off café tables where free-lance shrinkskeep office spreading patter butter out of which…
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Lehman Gets Good News
July 8, 2025 David Lehman wins the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize by the Editors Criterion Books will publish Ithaca in the winter of 2026. The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman…
