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Dan Gutstein: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________ The Fox Who Loves Me + Other Developments in the Faunal and Floral Kingdoms Deep, deep in the shrubberies: behold the beaver. Being…
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On Balanchine’s Birthday (January 22,1904)
George Balanchine (1904-1983) is tremendously quotable – if only because so many of his bon mots are adapted from others. When he declared himself to be “not a man but a cloud in trousers,” for…
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“Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” [new poems by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung]
"At the start of the pandemic, I wrote nine lines (three tercets) and asked Laren to write a response in three tercets. This back and forth correspondence has continued as an improvisation throughout this…
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The Portable Pussy [by Nin Andrews]
The Portable Pussy Wherever I go, I carry a pussy with me. How, you might ask, but I and the pussy are not one and the same being, so carry it I must. Asleep…
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On Thomas Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” [by David Lehman]
“Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise” David Lehman on why Thomas Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” is an overlooked poetic masterpiece.By David Lehman from Slate (January 22, 2013) Portrait of…
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Ogden Nash’s Advice to Husbands
A Word to Husbands To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up. from Candy is Dandy by Ogden Nash (1962). Did you know that…
