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  • We Love You, Yeah, Yeah Yeah [by Charles Coe]

    July 7, 2014

    Ringo Starr—born Richard Starkey—celebrates his 74th birthday on July 7th. (Fellow Baby Boomers, don’t freak out…just lean over, put your heads between your knees…breathe deeply…) Everybody okay? Good. Ringo replaced the famously fired Pete…

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  • Wednesday, July 9, 6:00 PM Intercultural Poetry at the Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC

    July 7, 2014

    An Evening with Outstanding New York Poets and Performers: David Lehman, Tulis McCall and Philip Fried.  Hosted by Andrey Gritsman. The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-989-9319 Find…

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  • The Aesthetics of Ruin: “Come rummage through our guts” [by Rochelle Hurt]

    July 7, 2014

      I’m from Ohio. If you’ve ever met anyone from Ohio, you may have noticed that they love to talk about Ohio—but not in the same way that New Yorkers love to talk about…

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  • “Thrall” [by Pia Aliperti]

    July 7, 2014

                after David Markson   Poet has been trying to eschew emotion.   Impartial directness, Poet wants.   I was born like this. I had no choice. I was born with the gift of…

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  • Monday Comic by Nin Andrews

    July 7, 2014

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  • Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 3 — Andrew Johnston’s ‘Juliet’

    July 7, 2014

      Illustration (c) Sarah Maxey Juliet That's the boy, she'll say,that's the boy in you – sitting on some bench, or beachgazing into the same maddening distance. It'sthe boy in her, she says, that…

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