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...Picnics, swimming, basketball, tricycle races--sounds like summer camp. Actually, these are some of the activities of the sailors and soldiers on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, located in the Arabian Sea, who were given their first day off in 43 days. See our photo essay of what the sailors fondly call a "steel-beach picnic" at time.com/roosevelt
...refrigerator sides. Their headings read “To Do Before Graduation” or “Top Ten Must Sees” and are followed by a list of activities so thorough, so positively guide-booky, that they would make any Fodor’s writer proud: picnic on Boston Common, visit Walden Pond, walk the Freedom Trail, take a Duck Tour, inhale culture...
Most of the poems in his newest collection, Night Picnic, start by gradually revealing something plain and recognizable, like a fruit stand, a church or a restaurant. Once the scene is set, the poem will ask you to look at it in an odd way, with an effect that is sometimes fantastic in the clearest way. The payoff is the jolt you get from being forced into a new way of seeing that is somehow off—sometimes violently...
...down with Charles Simic last Saturday at Wordsworth Books just before a reading for Night Picnic...
...Night picnic...