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The JFK Murder Mystery (with gumshoe Tony Trigilio) [by David Lehman]
If, like me, you can suspend your usual horror at conspiracy theories in favor of the higher paranoia, and you have a weakness for poetry noir and are convinced that JFK was not assassinated…
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Introducing The Best American Poetry 2018: Guest Editor Dana Gioia [video by Blank Verse Films]
This video was created by Mike Gioia for Blank Verse Films. For more BAP videos, scroll here. For more videos, subscribe to the Blank Verse YouTube channel. — sdl
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Quote of the Day: Suzanne Farrell on sex in ballets [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Edward Villella and Suzanne Farrell in Bugaku, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Toshiro Mayuzumi In remembering Arthur Mitchell, who died this week, I've been rereading Suzanne Farrell's memoir "Holding on to the Air."…
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Arthur Mitchell R.I.P [by Stacey Lehman]
New York City Ballet principal dancer, Suzanne Farrell, rehearses Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with Arthur Mitchell while George Balanchine looks on. Photo (c) Martha Swope/NYPL Reading this obituary of the brilliant Arthur Mitchell fills…
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Next Line, Please: What’s in a Name? [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's post offers up a prompt for our creative consideration with the topic of: your name! As Mr. Lehman so masterfully puts it: "When spoken, a person’s name likely affects him or her…
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“Credit Bubble” [by David Lehman]
Shall we divide the foreplay from the feast?In the gloom of morning, the flightbegan. The sun rose not in the eastbut south, where the clocks said it was night. “Too many cocks spoil the…
