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Midrash
Effort is its own reward. We are here to do, and through doing to learn; and through learning to know; and through knowing to experience wonder; and through wonder to attain wisdom; and through…
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The Double Life For Poets by J. Chester Johnson
Is there reason to be especially concerned should, for economic or other reasons, the number of available teaching jobs in creative writing be increasingly inadequate to accommodate new MFA graduates with a concentration in…
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My Quote for the Day — from Susan Sontag
<<< All political language is alienated. Political language as such is the enemy. (Joseph [Brodsky's] posiiton). >>> — Susan Sontag, entry for 12/ 6 / 77, in As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals…
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Charles Bukowski’s “Laughing Heart”
your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…
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Writing Verse About 9/11 by J. Chester Johnson
On the afternoon of September 10th, 2011, seven poets participated in a reading, held for the 10th commemoration of 9/11 and sponsored by Poets House, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Trinity Wall Street.…
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“Strangers in a Strange Land: A History of Italian-Language American Imprints, 1830-1945”
See this show of Italian language books and magazines from James J. Periconi's private collection, a lifetime labor of love, at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60 Street. It's open Monday to Saturday, 10…
