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Poets on Thanksgiving: A Roundup [by Stacey Lehman]
Some favorite Thanksgiving poems, starting with this one by Terence Winch: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I…
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The Heart Has Reasons [by John Skoyles]
And I wrote those reasons on the ruled grid of an index cardto preserve the moment, Madam, when the panels of the hotelelevator closed, leaving just us.A sigh and a kiss did nicely, Lady,but when…
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“Voyage” by Bella Li [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Bella Li has published three collections of poetry, Maps, Cargo (2013); Argosy (2017), winner of both the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 for poetry, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 for…
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On Coming to America [by Anne Lehman (1915-2009), as told to David Lehman]
David and Anne Lehman, in Vienna, 1998 When I was born the third child to my parents, they were not overjoyed, since they already had a daughter and a son. But my mother told…
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The Most Underrated Poet in America
<<< I remember a poet's writing to me several years back, You are the most underrated poet in the country. But then, he added, that's better than being the most overrated poet in the…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Nineteen): Amy Gerstler [by Angela Ball]
Night Life How can this equal rest or peace, this garble of gasps, snuffles,and horse-like snorts? His lips flutter as though he’s blowingbubbles, his moans so choked he must be drowning…or arehis legs being…
