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Why typing John Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” is a good thing [by Dara Wier]
These, I suppose, two Candadians, have been watching me for many years. They're in a painting James Tate and I found on a trans-Canadian road trip. We don't know who they are, or why…
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ELLISTON POET, R.I.P. – part 3 [by Jim Cummins]
(read Part I and Part 2 of this series) When I moved back to Cincinnati in 1975, I began collecting Cincinnati quotes—references to the city in books, magazines, the popular media, etc. Sort of…
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The Year in Review: Lasagna and Marge by Nancy Davidoff Kelton (October 4, 2012)
In her 70s, my mother began to call some women “Marge.” The real Marge, a kind, caring neighbor, visited my parents with homemade cookies and condominium gossip. She enjoyed my mother’s company. She and…
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The Year in Review: Blue and Sentimental by Ira Sadoff (September 27, 2012)
Last day of blogging and “I’m sweating a lot by now” which is a line from O’Hara’s tribute to Billie Holiday and arguably the best elegy about jazz ever written (“The Day Lady Died”).…
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Edmund Wilson and His Wife, Elena, Have Dinner with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Husband, Eugen Boissevain, August 6, 1948. (by Jim Cummins)
Is it hot in here, or is it just me? They both seem so much older now than I— can this be so? Do women age like dogs, or something out of Wilde? Seven…
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