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  • Jeff Bridges: A flash essay prefaced with a poem by Macgreogor Card with a dash of Fear and The Krays (Ray DeJesús)

    May 23, 2011

    THAT OLD WOOLLY BLOODLETTING by Macgregor Card In youth you tend to look rather frequently into a mirror, not at all necessarily from vanity. You say to yourself, “What an interesting face; I wonder…

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  • Didi Menendez’s Portrait Project

    May 22, 2011

    Didi Menendez's portrait project is designed for poets as well as visual artists. She has selected and posted photogaphic portraits to serve as models  Here are some of the particlars centerting on a Star…

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  • Brooklyn: Kissed and coldcocked (Ray DeJesús)

    May 22, 2011

    i. Is it Barcelona? Is it Brooklyn? Paris? No, Brooklyn, I'm sure of it. After all,for  37 years it's the city that's taken so much from me, but, simultaneously, givenme its heart and marrow.…

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  • Ray DeJesús, guest blogger, May 22-28

    May 22, 2011

    This week we welcome Ray DeJesús as our guest blogger.  Ray was born, raised, and still resides in Brooklyn, NY. A first generation Nuyorican, Ray is a graduate of The New School (MFA, Poetry,…

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  • “Harvesters” [by Johnny Chinnici]

    May 21, 2011

    If only I could find workas free from uncertaintyas the task on Brueghel's folksI would gladly sweat        for my boss, hay.I would laze upon        my bed of hay.Take a scythe to the ankles        of…

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  • University Place & 11th Street, May 21, 3:00 PM

    May 21, 2011

    — sdh

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