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“Have It, Eat It” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary from Mary Jo Salter]
Can we have our cake and eat it too? The best poets are able to take such common expressions, even clichés, and make us marvel at a fresh, new application. Stephen Kampa does this…
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The Ignoramus (by Mitch Sisskind)
Rav Heth Kokodiakomis came To Widawa where martyrs fell And so artfully celebrated pesach That he grew prideful of it and Reclined long after the seder ended. Then a question came to him…
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The Ignoramus (by Mitch Sisskind)
Rav Heth Kokodiakomis came To Widawa where martyrs fell And so artfully celebrated pesach That he grew prideful of it and Reclined long after the seder ended. Then a question came to him…
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“Eggtooth” [by Jesse Nathan]
Eggtooth Whose bread I eat, his note I sound. And so at last John Donne’s ghost spoke. Leaned up out of my book and nearly bit me.…
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“Eggtooth” [by Jesse Nathan]
Eggtooth Whose bread I eat, his note I sound. And so at last John Donne’s ghost spoke. Leaned up out of my book and nearly bit me.…
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“The Night I Finished Auden” [by Stephen Kampa, introduced by Mary Jo Salter]
In “The Night I Finished Auden,” Stephen Kampa pays tribute to a favorite poet [W. H. Auden, pictured left] in the most elegant way—by not just alluding to several of Auden’s poems but also…
