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January 05, 2012

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! JAE in the Times!

Best American Poetry's own Jill Alexander Essbaum is featured today in the New York Times' "Learning Network" Blog's post, "Poetry Pairing." Click here to read Jill's wonderful poem "Precipice" and the discussion as the poem is compared to two other pieces about time.

Way to go, Jilly!

Posted by Laura Orem on January 05, 2012 at 11:46 AM in Jill Alexander Essbaum - Coeur Despondent, Laura Orem, Red Lion, Poems | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman