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“the simplicity of patience” [by Jeff Oaks]
I didn't like Allen Ginsberg when I first read him. I didn't get why those long lines and weird language was necessary. It wasn't until I read the "wrong" book of his–the book that…
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O My Papa!
So she says Princess Leia's pop gave up the ghost.I said that's a hell of a way to describe Eddie Fisher.She said I never heard of Eddie Fisher.Did you know he had a national…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Raymond Hammond, editor of NYQ Books and The New York Quarterly
NA: I read that NYQ Books only publishes books by poets who have published in The New York Quarterly magazine. How does that work? Do you solicit manuscripts from these poets after they have…
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The competition was fierce!
but A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs picked up a Deems Taylor award last night at the annual ASCAP award ceremony. "I'm just a lucky so and so," said David when accepting his…
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It’s Emily Dickinson’s birthday, the voice on the radio said. [by Jeff Oaks]
My father has been dead for ten years today. I woke up in the dark hotel to a phone call: a nurse saying, “Your father’s condition has changed.” I’d spent the last three days…
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Freaks come sit by me [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darling Bleaders, There are a lot of ways to tell a story and one way is that sometime after my friend SH took her life I was teaching Elizabeth Bishop’s Collected Poems in the…
