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Theme Music: Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture
from "A Good Week for a Birthday" (in The Morning Line by David Lehman): What would I choose as my theme musicif I were the classical music disc jockeymaybe Bernstein’s overture to Candide or…
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John Ashbery’s Typewriter
John Ashbery's typewriter — a wonderful title for a poem, methinks — has turned up at Harvard. As the Harvard Gazette reports: <<<John Ashbery [pictured left with Jane Freilicher] dove head-first into poetry after…
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Trollus ex machina: It’s mine and I’ll do what I wanna [by Tracy Danison]
The eye of the storm “That is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” …
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“Horizontal Women” [by Amy Gerstler]
from Amy's new book, Index of Women (Penguin) Horizontal Women Women free-falling, fainted, or overcome, arms raisedor flung. Women mostly young and unsung. Womendiving for pearls. A girl tossing her curls, or out coldmid-clinch.…
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“My Ego” [by Amy Gerstler]
This week we are showcasing poems by Amy Gerstler from her new book INDEX OF WOMEN (Penguin). Three poems will appear, each at 10 AM, in honor of the college course catalogue's "MWF at…
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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________ “Gone” “Irk” was one of my dad’s favorite words. Mom liked to pick up on teen lingo. She…
