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“But Not For Me” (Happy birthday to you, Ira Gershwin)
One of Ira Gershwin's greatest lyrics: "They're writing songs of love, / But not for me. . ." "With love to lead the way, / I've found more clouds of gray / than…
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“Coda” [by Bill Wadsworth]
Coda You waited at the station entrance.I was late. My hair had turned graybut there you were, all the snow gone,all the leaves blown, the leopard sunhaving leapt across a life never lived. My…
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“Every Atom”: Brian Clements’ Whitman Project — 200 Days in Honor of 200 Years
A tip of the fedora to Brian Clements, who, in conjunction with North American Review, initiated "Every Atom" on Walt Whitman's birthday, May 31. On that day and for two hundred days after, poets…
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“Cape Fear” (1962) [by David Lehman]
Here is the first of my monthly movie columns for The American Scholar. For my opening salvo I chose Cape Fear (1962), in which Robert Mitchum captures the very essence of threat, lust, rage, and menace.…
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Seven Haiku for a Mongolian Master [by David Lehman]
Seven Haiku for Mend-Ooyo Lunch on the silveredge of the wide bridal skyin Mongolia. Wife starlight blossom:honeydew of honeymoon:two melons ripe, sweet. Man of the secretcode of the poet: ciphersof Mongolia. Paired pillows, the…
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Catullus #154 [trans Molly Arden]
Ode to His Love Where are you my Lady I am waiting for youI used to think that you would come but youProved to me that male and female are trueDistinctions "different but equal"…
