Poetry in Motion: Mike Tyson’s Bad Dreams

By age 20, Mike Tyson was not only boxing’s heavyweight champion, but the most dominant athlete of the 1980s.  Not even the massive egos and grand stamina of Michael Jordan, Carl Lewis, or Rickey Henderson could deliver such a claim. He made his modest fighting height of 5’10” into a net positive, by employing a “peek-a-boo” technique of ducking extremely low in order to block opponents’ punches, and in his prime delivered his blows the way a typhoon delivers hydration: […]

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Michiko Kakutani does Twitter?

Posted by Jason Diamond The literary Twitter world waits with baited breath to find out just who the person behind the Michiko Kakutani account is.  Some people don’t believe it’s truly her, but until we hear otherwise, we’re going to hold out and hope that it’s the real deal.   Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.

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