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"Crossroads" by Takafumi Ide
For my last guest-blogging post, here is my friend Takafumi Ide's beautiful installation, "Crossroads": Continue reading
Posted Aug 7, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Duck Blood Soup: Polish Comfort Food [by Sharon Mesmer]
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My non-Polish friends say it even sounds barbaric: soup made from … uh, blood? My mother, who actually ate it, was sure she’d heard about some health law prohibiting its sale. My grandmother, who made it, and often, once had... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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This Day In History: Proposition 8 Overturned
"Although Proposition 8 fails to possess even a rational basis, the evidence presented at trial shows that gays and lesbians are the type of minority strict scrutiny was designed to protect. "Plaintiffs do not seek recognition of a new right.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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A Poet's Refreshment [by Sharon Mesmer]
"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled." -- Edward Verrall Lucas Well, maybe. But I was glad I was awake when I had afternoon cocktails with my... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Deborah Pintonelli [by Sharon Mesmer]
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I had lunch in Brooklyn (at Linger, on Atlantic Avenue) yesterday with my life-long friend Deborah Pintonelli: ... extraordinary poet and fiction writer, all-around beautiful person. Debbie and I went to Columbia College, in Chicago, and studied with poet Paul... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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I Heart Juxtaposition
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Posted Aug 3, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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My Sometime Summer Writing Room: A Roof of Trees and Sestinas
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"How often have I lain beneath a roof of trees and sestinas, Sestinas and trees, the chiasmus of my timid hopes decked Out in the styles of the day, Losing myself in novels of corporeal sunshine and a home .... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Frank Sinatra---Francis Albert Sinatra Bobby Darin--- Roberto Cassotto Tony Bennett---Antonio Benedetto Perry Como--- Nick Perido Vic Damone---Vito Farinola Dean Martin---Dino Paul Crocetti Extra credit answer: Harry James. I don't know how FS responded, tho. Maybe a punch in the kisser?
Toggle Commented Mar 21, 2010 on Will the real Frank Sinatra please stand up? at The Best American Poetry
Thank YOU, David! The pleasure was most definitely mine. Now,if I can only do something with my own neglected blog. Btw, I'm working on a response poem to those lines from Eliot that you posted earlier. We'll see ... !
Toggle Commented Nov 29, 2008 on Dear Poets and Bleaders — A Request [by Sharon Mesmer] at The Best American Poetry
Oh, but often there's great poetry to be found there: one of my long-ago students actually wrote the sentence "hung on a giblet." I think that's going to be the title of my next book!
Toggle Commented Nov 26, 2008 on Monotonizing Existence at The Best American Poetry
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