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On Ron Padgett’s “Collected Poems” (Coffee House Press) [by David Lehman]
This painting of Ron Padgett by Fairfield Porter adorns the cover of Ron's book Blood Work I had the happy chance to review Ron Padgett's Collected Poems (Coffee House Press) for Publishers Weekly. Here…
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Edward Salem: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________ My Aerodynamics As I fell from the sky, I smelled fish. The fish was in my mouth. My eyes…
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“The Manchurian Candidate” [by Elaine Equi]
The Manchurian Candidate Laurence Harvey: he of the glazed eye,who could stay under hypnosisfor the length of an entire film. Who turns playing solitaireinto a dangerous game. A below the surface kind of guy.…
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Rhode Island is Famous for You [for Denise Duhamel, on her birthday]
Rhode Island is Famous for YouBy David Lehman for Denise Duhamel The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead,show life when brought to the public eye in June,the month of…
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“Ommi Sissi”, Mohamed Issaoui dancing, death by speeding and theory of memory [By Tracy Danison]
Mohamed Issaoui performing “Ommi Sissi”, 3 June 2025. Photo © Patrick Berger I have false memories about real I-refute-you-thus things. I mention this because dance creator Mohamed Issaoui wrote a 20-minute dance performance he…
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Software Sonnet [by Mitch Sisskind]
Software Sonnet We say that he or she does not haveThe software whenever he or sheIs physically, mentally, or emotionallyIncapable of performing some taskLike if he doesn't have the basketballSoftware to play in the…
