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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – 100 Years Ago Today by Stacey Harwood
קרבנות פֿונעם טרײַענגל־פֿײַער ליגן צוגעדעקט אויף דער גאַס (Credit: Forward Association) Both my maternal and fraternal grandmothers were among the scores of eastern European immigrants who worked in sweatshops during the early part of…
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This just in . . . Calling All Poets: Write a poem for a good cause!!
My friend Susan Pattenaude, a senior domestic violence attorney with The Legal Project in Albany, NY writes to tell me about a poetry contest for a good cause. This is near to my heart…
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Photographs Can’t Rhyme, by Amy Holman
This picture I took today, a few days into spring, is part of what passes for pastoral in my Brooklyn neighborhood–a barn-shaped birdhouse visible through a vine-wrapped chicken wire fence at the Recreation Center…
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Taylor Worship, by Catherine R. Stimpson
My sister Mary called. "Elizabeth Taylor," she said. "Yes," I said. "I'm sorry," she said. "I am, too," I said. "You must be mourning." "I am." "You were obsessed with her," she said. "I was," I said. I was? I …
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Congratulations to Newest Hall of Famer John Ashbery by Stacey Harwood
We're pleased to announce that on the evening of Friday, April 1, in Albany, NY, the Empire State Center for the Book will induct John Ashbery into the New York State Writers Hall of…
