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Next Line, Please: The Best of Everything [by Virginia Valenzuela]
On this week's installment of Next Line, Please, dated September 11th, a day many of us remember solemnly and viscerally, David Lehman takes a moment to talk about the beauty of truth and the…
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“Good Bad Titles” [by David Lehman]
On May 30, 2008, in this space, Dan Nester posted about an afternoon he and Jonah Winter spent sending up the titles that adorn poetry books. The titles that occurred to them "all seemed so aggressively…
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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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Financial Market Report: Goldman Sax on the Beach [by David Lehman]
David Solomon, soon to be CEO of Goldman Sachs, moonlighting in the sun as a disc jockey at Gurney’s. (Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg) As summer winds down, and Labor Day recedes in the rear view…
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“Rocky Colavito” [by Jamie Katz]
When Rocky Colavito was hitting forty-two home runs a year,a dark-eyed, rifle-armed right fielder for the Cleveland Indians,my monthly sports magazine said he made the bobby-soxers swoon.I wasn’t sure what that meant.…
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On Sonny Rollins’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
for Jamie Katz Speaking of the devilyou know and the tenorsaxophonist your fatherplayed with,…
