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A Kickstarter Worth Supporting: For Walt Whitman’s birthday: War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials by Binh Danh & Robert Schultz
Our great national poet’s concerns during the Civil War apply with striking relevance in our own moment of war and dividedness. Whitman’s humane example and his central trope—the leaves of grass as sign of…
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“That’s What I Thought” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Everybody has a tragic storyAnd I have one of those too. Would you like to hear it For a couple of hours on an Economy class flight to LA?Haha that’s what I thought! So let’s talk about…
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“Poem in the Manner of the 1960s” [by David Lehman, with poster from Va Q R]
Virginia Quarterly Review's poetry poster from 2012
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Pride or Prejudice: You be the judge [by David Lehman]
In the current issue of New England Review, a highly respected journal, the editor prefaces the issue with a note in which she admits to being captivated by Les Miserables by Victor Hugo [left].…
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No Time Like Now: New Poems by Andrei Codrescu
You are invited to public self-flagellation at Strand Bookstore in New York City on March 26th at 7pm. I will be reading from new poetry book, "No Time Like Now" (Pitt Poetry Series,…
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From the Archives: Lydia Davis on TV [by David Lehman]
From the Archives: January 29, 2013 On July 15, 2012, we reported in this space that Lauren Ambrose of Six Feet Under fame would play the part of Dr. Susan Wheeler in a two-night miniseries based on Robin Cook's…
