First Proof summer 2008 cover depicts Nancy Spero’s 1974 handprinting and collage work, The Hours of the Night First Proof, BOMB’s summer 2008 literary pull-out, offers readers lively experiments in form and content from fine writers including Gary Indiana, Keller + Kuhn, Fiona Maazel, and Tom Healy. In Sally Dawidoff’s structural poem “No Sparkly Pens,

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As a follow-up to our Summer of Politics (see below post) is the poet Gerald Stern’s essay “Bullet in My Neck” from the Fall 2003 issue of The Georgia Review. Stern writes about being shot in the late 1980s when he and his companion became lost in Newark, NJ and two boys approached their vehicle

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