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A Night on the Town, 2018 [by Stacey Lehman]
There were six of us and it was late. We had fallen in together in search of a restaurant or bar, following an event at Poets House to celebrate 30 years of the annual…
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“They’re gonna take a hike / through Hitler’s Reich”: D-Day plus 76
There'll be a hot time in the town of Berlin. . .
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Two Dozen Reasons to Make Dinner [by Adrienne Su]
Twelve Ways Cooking Is Empowering: When you look into the refrigerator at what used to elicit a wail of “there’s nothing to eat,” you see the makings of a frittata, pizza, or fried rice.…
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The Two Kinds of Poets [by Adrienne Su]
I have an informal, untested theory that when it comes to sustenance while writing, there are two kinds of poets: coffee poets and food poets. Coffee poets (who in some cases could be considered…
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“Evening Prayer” [by Arthur Rimbaud; trans. Bill Zavatsky]
I live sitting down, like an angel held by a barber,Clutching a deeply fluted mug,Stomach and neck arched, a BriarIn my teeth, under air swollen by sails no one can touch. Like the…
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Everything in Its Place [by Adrienne Su]
Poet and memoirist Sandra Beasley cooks differently depending on whether she’s writing poetry or prose: “I’m a tremendous fan of mise en place; one of my favorite wedding gifts was a stack of glass…
