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George Bilgere’s “Poetry Town”: Poem of the Day, Feb 28,, 2025
Click here to read about George Bilgere and to subscribe to his "Poetry Town" newsletter. An excerpt from today's follows. Here’s a poem for today, February 28, 2025 February 7 by David Lehman It…
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Boys, Beware of the Bad Girl! [by Mitch Sisskind]
How ironic that, as intellectuals and aesthetes, those of us who live by words may underestimate the power of the words we speak or write. Just the other day I was in pleasant conversation…
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Nobody is getting off this train: interpreting “Qui Som”, a performance by Baro d’Evel [By Tracy Danison]
“Qui som” by Baro d'Evel. Photo © Christophe Raynaud de Lage Not too terribly long ago I was in a pretty fancy café on Paris' famous île Saint Louis. I fell into a chat…
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Pal Johnny, Our Greatest Story Writer [by David Lehman]
John O'Hara, author of "How Can I Tell You?" — one of the subtlest stories in the language — among other masterpieces, has one memorable sentence in his Hollywood novel, The Big Laugh (1962). It…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-Five): David Lehman [by Angela Ball]
I Remember –After Joe Brainard 1. I remember high school and wanting people to call me Dave. I remember a truck driver named Dave. I remember when my older sister was sixteen…
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The End of February [by David Shapiro and David Lehman]
Subj: Re: Another Homage to an Aphorism: in case I can't write one tomorrow Date: 2/24/2003 2:35:55 PM Eastern Standard Time From: DaJoShap To: DCLEHMAN There is no wing like meaning, said the salesman.There is…
