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The guys at the bar talk about Keats's "Ode to a N\ightingale"

Jane Yeh: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

Name that line!

"Smoking in Heaven" [by Robert Hass]

What's Your Line?

Pessoa’s Persona [by David Lehman]

The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Six: Brooke Harries [by Angela Ball]

"School Ties" – anti-Semitism at an elite prep school in rhe 1950s

The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Six: Brooke Harries [by Angela Ball]

A Deep-Sworn Vow [by William Butler Yeats]

"And" versus "&" in modern poetry

"The Inevitable 'But'" [by David Lehman and David Shapiro]

David Mamet on the overuse of "Fuck" & the deprivation of its force

Michael Palma: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

Writing for Fools [by Arthur Schopenhauer]

On Paul Violi’s ‘EXACTA’ [by Martin Stannard]

Breaking through: Candice Martel’s Électro-Tap [By Tracy Danison]

"Living in the Past" [by David Lehman]

The Ashbery Jahrzeit

BAP 2025 is here

Schadenfreude: A Living Definition

Julia Heney: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

BAP 2025 Farewell Tour: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 7 PM at the 92nd Street Y

"A Wicker Basket" [by Robert Creeley, 1926-2005]

"Five New Tell-All Autobios" [by David Lehman]

A la recherche de sanity perdu: City of Light offers circus respite [By Tracy Danison]

World faces catastrophic narrowing of way of being says expert [By Tracy Danison]

No Iscariot is Scariett: "THE 100 BEST, NOT SO WELL KNOWN, POETS IN ENGLISH, PART ONE"

Leonard Bernstein's Divertimento diverted me when I drove my car on Highland Road today

"No Moon at All" [with Doris Day]

Sound and Breath, Edited by Shanta Lee and Philip Brady [by Nin Andrews]

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY FAREWELL TOUR [by Stacey Lehman]

A celebration of BAP and launch of BAP 2025 at the 92nd Street Y in NYC September 4, 2025

Erik Kennedy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

"A Dog by the Ears" [by George Bradley]

"Why the ‘Best American Poetry’ series is ending with BAP 2025" [by Erik Pedersen in "The Orange County Register"]

The Black Car [a "Next Line, Please" prompt from May 3, 2017]

"I have but one heart. . ." [Vic Damone]

Do you need a kick in the ass? [by Mitch Sisskind]

Restored footage of Ike and Patton at concentration camps

from "Why I Love 'You' " [for Stacey Lehman on her birthday]