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The Floating Crowbar & The Rambling Pitchfork: The Poetry of Irish Tune Titles (Terence Winch)
Not long ago, I was contemplating this medley of tunes from an album called Stormy Weather by the excellent traditional band Beginish: I'm Waiting for You Touch Me If You Dare The Gooseberry Bush…
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Book Review Classics: Garrison Keillor on Bernard-Henri Levy’s America
from Garrison Keillor's review of American Vertigo (NYTBR, Jan. 29, 2006) <<<Any American with a big urge to write a book explaining France to the French should read this book first, to get a…
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Darks arts for dark days: Poetry on All Hallows’ Eve [Katy Evans-Bush]
The old church in Heptonstall, Yorkshire Rather than leave on such a public footing, I see I'm still live – so I'll consider the day a bit before signing off. I've always felt October…
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A blue butterfly to go home with [Katy Evans-Bush]
Poetry International 2010: Imagining Peace ALAS! No picture of Waterloo Bridge with which to round off this week. But take it from me: earth has not anything to show more fair, not even Westminster…
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Why George Soros Votes Yes on Proposition 19
George Soros has a cogent column in the Wall Street Journal on why he favors legalizing marijuana. Here is how the piece opens:<<<Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization…
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Into London [by Katy Evans-Bush]
Old Street, October 2010 Just on my way to the Southbank Centre to the second night of this year's Poetry International Festival there. A lovely, sunny autumn day in London when I mostly slept,…
