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Prose 82

Jason Schneiderman Interview with Molly Peacock    and David Lehman

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

October 2009 – January 2010 An Interview with David Lehman, Editor of Best American Poetry and Molly Peacock, Editor of Best Canadian Poetry in English. Conducted by Jason Schneiderman. Jason: Molly, David;  I’m awed by how much you both do to promote poetry.  David, you’ve been editing Best American Poetry for over two decades. Molly, […]

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Molly Peacock: The Diva

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

D was done with it and it meant everything. Done with demands, denial, the drama of hope. D hadn’t lived all his decades for nothing. Devotion?  Spare me, D thought. D was closing doors. Click-click—done. When they were all shut behind him, there opened a corridor of woods. And another thing I’m done with, D […]

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David Lehman: Ode to Punctuation

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

A poem without punctuation is female. – Pauline Ambrozy The comma is female, The exclamation point male, The semi-colon is fem bi-curious sub 29 Virginia. The apostrophe is prosperous, possessive (femme) The colon looks both ways before crossing the street (m). The fast-running dash can’t make up his mind about the curvaceous question mark lurking […]

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Kristin Dombek: Monkeys Might Fly

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

(An Adynaton) My husband and I have made a quiet and comfortable life together in Brooklyn.  I teach at a university and he has his own business down the street from our apartment building.  Most evenings, we arrive home from work around 8:00 or so, and order Mexican food, sushi, pizza, or deli sandwiches.  If […]

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