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Adrienne Su recommends “Poems in the Manner Of…”
2020 has not brought a windfall of reading time for me, never mind writing time. I read plenty, but it’s mostly news: I can’t stop checking to see which part of what sky is…
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“Jan Brueghel the Elder’s ‘A Woodland Road with Travelers’” [by Robert Schultz]
Midway in their desperate journey they Find themselves in a dark wood. Women In skirts and domed hats carry heavy Jugs and stuffed baskets, all they now own. Men drive beasts, pigs on leashes, horses tethered To a…
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“Virginity” [by Mitch Sisskind]
They called him Tight Pants Blair and he Favored an eccentric notion of time derivedFrom A.N. Whitehead's Process and Reality.In a nutshell, Tight Pants Blair proposed that The past does exist but with a certain…
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“Misunderstood Ghazal” [by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade]
Simone de Beauvoir asked “What is a woman?” in The Second Sex, and Sojourner Truth asked “Ain’t I a woman?” Before cybersex, we had touchtone phone sex; before that, suggestive telegrams. Before we said…
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“Poem for Basho” [by Ed Ochester]
Poem for Basho If I am timorous andhesitant to intrudeon your privacy, forgive me, for thoughevery poet in New Yorkhas written a poem to you it is different herewhere one farm does not wishto…
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Who Wrote It? [A multiple-choice quiz]
I am not of those miserable malesWho sniff at vice, and, daring not to snap,Do therefore hope for heaven. I take the hapOf all my deeds. The wind that fills my sails,Propels; but I…
