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CALLING ALL TATTOOED POETS!
Triptych of Vinny Valenzuela's Buddha Hard to believe that for 12 years we have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for Tattoosday's…
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“The Trouble Ball” [by Martín Espada]
For my father, Frank Espada In 1941, my father saw his first big league ballgame at Ebbets Fieldin Brooklyn: the Dodgers and the Cardinals. My father took his father’s hand.When the umpires lumbered…
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The Making of the Oxford Canon: Scary Poetry [by David Lehman]
From Oxford University Press (12/20/06): <<<Waking up every day this week to David Lehman’s thoughts on American poetry might actually turn me into a morning person. Today, Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of American…
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“For Anne Gregory” [by William Butler Yeats]
'Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.' 'But I can get a hair-dyeAnd set such colour there,Brown, or black, or…
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Squibs 381-387 [by Alan Ziegler]
381:Everyone has stories to tellSome big, some small—Know someone long enough and wellYou’ll hear them all,Though details may morph as years swellAnd tales grow tall. 382: Hey cowboys, a traveling tip: It’s better to ride…
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Grace Schulman Remembers Harold Bloom
from the current issue of Literary Matters, this excerpt from Grace Schulman's eloquent "Remembering Harold Bloom": <<<Harold Bloom had been my friend since 1989, when I received bound proofs of The Book of J. David…
