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  • Performer Simon Tanguy does words well [by Tracy Danison]

    March 31, 2022

    Simon Tanguy performing “Inging”. Photo©Elian Bachini Although she disdained mostly everybody but her two sisters and her boon girlfriend Dottie, my mother was much involved in good works. Ma mastered the trick of feeding…

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  • “Poem for Basho” [by Ed Ochester]

    March 30, 2022

    If I am timorous andhesitant to intrudeon your privacy, forgive me, for thoughevery poet in New Yorkhas written a poem to you it is different herewhere one farm does not wishto violate another farm's…

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  • “Imperial Adam” by A.D. Hope [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    March 30, 2022

    When A.D. Hope published his first collection of poetry, The Wandering Islands, at the age of 48, he was already regarded as the leading Australian poet of his day. The book’s belated publication in…

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  • “On Becoming a Poet”: featuring Denise Duhamel, Geoffrey O’Brien, Phillip Lopate. . .

    March 29, 2022

    New from Marsh Hawk Press: On Becoming a Poet: 25 Original Essays & Interviews Edited by Susan Terris Sandy McIntosh’s Chapter One Series presents 25 writers at their most candid and expansive about how…

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  • Headline of the Week: Oscar Wilde, Back in the News

    March 29, 2022

    << New York Post Metro Edition Tuesday, March 29, 2022 OSCAR WILD What you didn't see on TV after Awards' slap snap Sources describe a backstage scene of chaos Sunday night after Will Smith…

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  • “Tea Lay” [by Sharon Dolin]

    March 28, 2022

    Tea Lay          after John Clare A missed tea, that piece of, to say, Off, grief.We all come, by turns meretricious, to someone's wry relief.Tangled wit, the ought of risible Tea Lay,Aspiring…

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