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Att 7 pm October 30: a celebration of Joe Brainard’s Selected Letters
Joe Brainard is the only painter whose work adorns the cover of two volumes of "The Best American Poetry" For Joe Brainard The road sign said snow‘Well, I never said it was spring’in 1968…
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Nin Andrews: How to Write the MFA Poem
For Nin Andrews's must-read "Learning to Write the MFA Poem," click here. We printed the poem in its entirety on February 22, 2010, as you'll see if you use this link, but I can't…
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A “Next Line, Please” Reprise: Name that Line!
From 2014 to 2019, David Lehman helmed one of our most popular columns: “Next Line, Please,” which resulted in a finished, crowdsourced poem every week. Lehman’s prompts attracted professional writers and amateurs…
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Joe Kloc: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________________________________________________________ 82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984 Um, I don’t know what to say. I am not…
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The Golden Age of Paranoia, part II [by Joe Lehman]
Strange Days Indeed — The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen was first published in Great Britain in 2009, amid the early days of the Great Recession following the collapse of Lehman Bros.…
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Poem Beginning with a Line after Yehuda Amichai [by Didi Jackson]
Past the window in the room where we make lovewaves follow one another like lines of laundryas the cliffs unfold, spilling like bolts of cloth into the bay,and it is the anise, they say,…
