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  • The Wished-for Words [by David Shapiro]

    May 4, 2019

    David Shapiro wrote at 8:42pm David, please take the test I left out in the rain.Freud's the name, theory's the game, lying on the couch seems inane,free association is the main, transference too is…

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  • paul eluard does his best to honor fem sexuality [by Paul Eluard]

    May 4, 2019

    For a New Night Woman I live with have lived with will live withwill always live with Red coatRed glovesRed maskBlack boots As evidence as proofI have seen you nude while lavishly adorned. Tits, O…

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  • Remembering John Ashbery: “As I recall, John mostly listened and I mostly babbled” [by Jane Hammond]

    May 3, 2019

    Midwife to Gargoyles (c) Jane Hammond (click for a full-sized image)  My story starts with Robinson Crusoe and ends with a martini. Like Raymond Roussel, I’ll try to write between the two. In 1989 I…

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  • The Critic [by Kenneth Tynan]

    May 3, 2019

    << The critic knows the way but can't drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan, famous critic >>

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  • Meet the Press: PANK Books—A Conversation with Jessica Fischoff

    May 3, 2019

    Dante Di Stefano: You have an exquisite poem called “My Body is a Library” published in Diode, that ends with the following stanza:           I’ve renamed every flower        For the women who came…

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  • David Lehman at the Hammer Museum, Thursday, May 9, 7:30 PM

    May 3, 2019

    Coffee, tea, and book signing with the author to follow the reading. Hammer Museum10899 Wilshire BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90024(310) 443-7000  ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM? Ticketing: Free tickets are required and available at the Box Office one…

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