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  • “What’s Happening”: David Shapiro in memory of Kenneth Koch

    February 18, 2022

    What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget!  I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I rarely dance."…

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  • “What’s Happening”: David Shapiro in memory of Kenneth Koch

    February 18, 2022

    What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget!  I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I rarely dance."…

    Continue reading…

  • “Elegy for Archie Ammons” [by Jim Cummins]

    February 18, 2022

    Last night I read “Part Ten”Of Archie Ammons’s GarbageOut loud, twice, in an empty room.Then stopped in embarrassmentTo hear if anyone was listening. I’d bought the book so many years agoAnd carried it with…

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  • “Elegy for Archie Ammons” [by Jim Cummins]

    February 18, 2022

    Last night I read “Part Ten”Of Archie Ammons’s GarbageOut loud, twice, in an empty room.Then stopped in embarrassmentTo hear if anyone was listening. I’d bought the book so many years agoAnd carried it with…

    Continue reading…

  • Knott as a Stranger: “Why Can’t I Just Write My Crummy Poems?”

    February 17, 2022

                The late Bill Knott, born February 17, 1940, was a terrific poet who distinguished himself from nearly all other American poets by wanting to keep his poems from…

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  • Knott as a Stranger: “Why Can’t I Just Write My Crummy Poems?”

    February 17, 2022

                The late Bill Knott, born February 17, 1940, was a terrific poet who distinguished himself from nearly all other American poets by wanting to keep his poems from…

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