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Homage to Professor Lewis Warsh Credit: John Casquarelli by Jhon Sanchez Unlike John Casquarelli, my dear friend and classmate of the MFA program, I don’t like taking pictures very much. I don’t even use my phone camera and rarely take selfies. But I remember when the photos were taken. It was after a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club that our MFA classmates took a picture. I was in the back next to Professor Warsh, who hugged me. I felt his arm across my chest as he tapped three times on my heart. After failing the bar exam and struggling to fi...

Homage to Lewis Warsh: All Poets Welcome For Lewis Warsh John Casquarelli with Lewis Warsh. Credit: John Casquarelli. LITERARY a copy of Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently. I stare at his bookshelves, half-listening. He smiles and I recognize it’s possible to dream without sleeping. This must be how a tiger feels when it becomes aware of its stripes. On paper, growls are fragments, each stanza a grain of dust in an hourglass. His gray sweater includes threads of second generation St. Mark’s Poetry Project Wednesday readings. “Take my lo...