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  • Auden’s Mirror Game

    February 14, 2011

     “Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…

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  • Bits and Bobs, Feb 14 – 20

    February 14, 2011

    WEST COAST: Sunday, February 20 – Jessica Piazza,Amanda Ackerman, Tisa Bryant read at Featherless #8. Reception to follow. 7:30 pm. Wordspace, 3131 Casitas Ave #156, Los Angeles, CA.  Details here. — sdh

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  • The Hidden Ones (by Mitch Sisskind)

    February 14, 2011

                                                                                               The Hidden Ones                                 Charles Parker known as Yardbird For his love of chicken whether Fried or roasted sometimes performedOn a toy saxophone and occasionallyDozed off on the bandstand or failedTo show up altogether.…

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  • S.W.A.K.!!!

    February 14, 2011

    Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless sadness o’er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know,…

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  • The Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Reading – Monday, February 14, KGB Bar 85 E 4th Street, NYC 7-9 PM, Free

    February 13, 2011

    Listen to Jerry Williams, David Lehman, Donna Masini, and Kenneth Hart read from It's Not You, It's Me:  The Poetry of Breakup (Overlook, 2010).  More information here.  — sdh

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  • R.I.P. Mack (2000-2011)

    February 13, 2011

    I posted about Mack here a couple of weeks ago.  At the time I knew he wasn't well but I was hopeful.  His owner tells me that 11 is well beyond the usual for…

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