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Daniel Brown, Guest Author August 13-17
This week we welcome Daniel Brown as our guest author. Daniel’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Raritan, PN Review, Parnassus, and other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies including Poetry 180 and The Swallow Anthology…
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Summer Reading: Jeanne McCulloch’s Debut Memoir “All Happy Families” [by Stacey Lehman]
Two days before Jeanne McCulloch was to marry, her father John suffered a massive stroke and lay in a coma from which he would not emerge. Patricia McCulloch, Jeanne's formidable mother, insisted that…
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A Tarot Reading for David Lehman [by Benebell Wen]
On January 30, the eve of a New Moon, housed in Aquarius, I read tarot for Best American Poetry’s very own David Lehman. The King of Swords was selected for his signifier card. In…
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Liszt, Grant, Dostoevsky — 1/3 (By Mitch Sisskind)
Liszt You’re buying a can of tuna fish As you’ve done so many times Over the years but this is today, This is the exact can of tuna fish You’re buying now, it’s different…
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Next Line, Please: How to Cheat [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, the masterful David Lehman gave us a prompt in which we were tasked with writing two lines of a poem every day, and then putting them all together…
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