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On Fats Waller’s Birthday: A Poem [by David Lehman]
Fats Waller Live in 1935 You and I both know why“all my blondes and brunettes”become“all my Harlem coquettes”when Fats Waller sings“Lulu’s Back in Town”after playing it on the pianoin 1935. Think of that: in…
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Workman’s Lunch [by Dean Smith]
The poem “Cardboard Note” stopped me in my tracks as I walked through New Orleans one summer in the mid-90s. I carried it in my head as a meditation for more than twenty years.…
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Give Me Back My Bloomers! (Catullus 420) [translated by Molly Arden]
Thallus, you lump,Lift your sorry carcass! I want no more of your clichés —yourGood things come to those who wait—I who have waited till the cows come homeand never come—you of the spontaneous overflowof…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty [by Alec Bernstein]
Bellini, Raw Pork and Opium Left: Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, Giovanni Bellini, 1460s, not on view.Top: The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches, Henry Fuseli, 1796, gallery 633.Bottom: The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781, Detroit Institute…
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Soundtrack for “The Daily Mirror” [by Joshua Michael Stewart]
Joshua Michael Stewart has created a Spotify soundtrack for The Daily Mirror by David Lehman (Scribner, 2000). It includes Ella and Louis singing "Can't We Be Friends," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters accentuating…
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Dispatch From A Distance – Enter Geese [by Cara Benson]
There is a pond at the heart of the woods down multiple hills, over more ridges than I care to count, from the church where I now live. When I think of it, the…
