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Occupying Providence with Alfred Corn and Doug Anderson (by Leslie McGrath)
I spend so much time online that the majority of my friendships are virtual, particularly friendships with other poets. We’ve taken to the quiet and ease of the electronic ether like the strange birds…
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Frequency North, Slam Poetry in Albany and Other Readings-Type Things [Daniel Nester]
Greetings from the Capital Region, 800,000- and four counties-strong. We're north of the Hudson Valley, south of the North Country, west of Western Massachusetts, east of Central New York. So now you know where…
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Imagine Bartleby in Today’s Job Market – by Earle Hitchner
At the risk of annoying the apolitical or infuriating the politically antithetical, I admit I’m dismayed by all the brickbats hurled at the spreading Occupy Wall Street movement. The main accusations are that OWS,…
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Raving about “The Raven” While Chewing on a Rathbone. – Earle Hitchner.
“The best you can hope for is that your appreciation will reach fifty percent.” I still don’t understand why high-school and college teachers of drama don’t make that honest statement to their students at…
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Tonight at Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, Monday, October 24, 7:00 p.m. Rimon opens its 2011-12 Artist Salon Series at The Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, St. Paul) with author, David Lehman, who will…
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Earle Hitchner, Guest Blogger October 23-29
This week we welcome Earle Hitchner as our guest blogger. Earle is the “Ceol” (music) columnist for the Irish Echo newspaper, a freelance music writer for The Wall Street Journal, and a member of the advisory board of…