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The Volatility Index (“volatility being the square root of variance”) [by DL and friend]
We asked our friend on Wall Street to make a summer forecast and to explain a term we're hearing a lot on the news these days: the "volatility index," or the "VIX." Here's the…
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Elliott Carter is 103 and Going Strong [by DL]
From a recent interview with composer Elliott Carter, 103, who had a world premiere last weekend. Carter, who says he is reading Balzac in French on his Kindle, airs thoughts (or recollections) about Hitler,…
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An Ode to Magic [by Catherine Woodard]
Basketball poems bugged Quincy Troupe for a long time, particularly his own. No poem he’d ever read – or written – captured the speed of basketball, until he wrote an ode to Earvin "Magic" Johnson…
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Jen Benka to direct Academy of American Poets
<<< June 11, 2012 — The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Jennifer Benka has been named the organization's next Executive Director. She will return to New York City, where she…
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Catherine Woodard, Guest blogger June 12-16
photo (c) Jerry Siegel This week we welcome Catherine Woodard as our guest blogger. Catherine has played coed, pickup basketball in New York City for three decades. She swerved to poetry in 2001 after an…
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Judy Garland on the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
On June 10, I was going to post this version of the Academy Award -winning song, two minutes and fifty one seconds of pure pleasure from that day's birthday girl — with powerful assists…
