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“What’s Happening” [by David Shapiro]
What’s Happening (“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS) Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget! I pause don’t dance don’t leap. "I…
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Big Doings Coming Up At the Russian Samovar: Ruth Padel, Andrey Gritsman, David Lehman, and Vlad Mayakovsky
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, at 6 PM, at the Russian Samovar (256 West 52nd Street, NYC) Intercultural Poetryproudly presents Ruth PadelDavid LehmanAndrey Gritsman&Vladimir Mayakovsky, the yellow-vested champion of Russian modernism Ruth Padel (above…
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Poet Spotlight: Traci Brimhall [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Traci Brimhall is the author of three collections of poetry: Saudade (Copper Canyon Press), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press). Her next collection, a hybrid of essays…
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Next Line, Please: Reverse Scrabble [by Virginia Valenzuela]
"Reverse Scrabble" is a prompt invented last week by our literary ring master, David Lehman. The aim is to derive as many words as possible from one given polysyllabic word and then integrate them…
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WHEAT OR SNAKES [by Andrei Codrescu]
Shortly after the fall of the Romanian dictatorship in 1989, a friend of mine, the poet Ioana Ieronim, took me to see the Peasant Museum in Bucharest. It was a place full of folk…
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Poet Spotlight: Adeeba Shahid Talukder [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The…
