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Winners of SMS poetry competition. (Comments at least as interesting as the poems.) gulfstream/412

CD of poets reading their own poems. (An Atlantic Monthly article links to some similar recordings, including Sylvia Plath reading “Lady Lazarus.”)  … gulfstream/1203

Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” and Pound’s parody. (Shame the parody doesn’t do anything with the “bee-loud glade.”(I … gulfstream/1420

Quotes Collected

Above, I very casually remarked that I have enjoyed total control over page-breaks and such things; yet the truth of the matter would be far more accurately … quotes/331

Almost as soon as I had sent off a poem to The New Yorker, it would be back in our mailbox in Berlin. The postal service was, of course, incomparably … quotes/232

"Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called `Jabberwocky'?" "Let's hear it," said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the poems that ever … alice/44