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“Ours was not a time. . .” [by Lev Oborin, trans. John Narins]
Ours was not a timeof the Great Terror or the Bolshoi Theater.we are impaled upon the ramrods of our theoriesand naked to the tideand to plunge in we're never leeryOurs was not the timeof…
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All to No End from Literary Los Angeles [by Jenny Factor]
all to no end save beauty the eternal – from The Crowd at the Baseball Game by William Carlos Williams It's been a big week for poetry around here. Last Friday, the Mayor of Los…
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The Year in Review: The Bookstore by Michael Schiavo (November 12, 2012)
11 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA I’ve worked at The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts since at least last Wednesday. If you get that joke, then you’ve probably been to The Bookstore where you’ve probably met…
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“If you love steak, you can love chicken, too!” An exchange between Jamie Katz and Lewis Saul
(ed note: Lewis Saul's tribute to Dave Brubeck, who died last week, prompted this affectionate exchange between Jamie Katz and Lew, two musicians who know their stuff. I thought it worth highlighting since both…
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The Year in Review: Word To World by Sholeh Wolpé (November 5, 2012)
My mother and her sisters were born in Ishqabad, “the city of love,” in Turkmenistan. She was educated in Cypress as a nurse, speaking both Turkish and Greek. She then went to Tehran, met…
