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The late Lena Horne
Lena Horne, who died the day before Mother's Day this year, was as elegant a Brooklyn-born jazz singer as ever lit up the Cotton Club. She was elegant, sultry, and so pale-skinned she could…
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The Guessing Game (IV)
So you think you know history! Explain the significance of this front page. (BTW. . .The letter was sent to "the president of the republic." Which republic?)
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The Melancholy Certainty of Decline
". . . in art, a school once established normally deteriorates as it goes on. It achieves perfection in its kind with a startling burst of energy, a gesture too quick for the historian's…
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We Have Our First Winner! by Rachel Shukert
We have our first winner in the Write a Rhymed Poem About Your Disappointing Family Member Sweepstakes! Karen Bock contributed the following brilliant bit of doggerel: Dick, the Dick My pedophile brother, Richmade some…
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Nights on Planet Earth, by Campbell McGrath
Video by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, filmmaker Leita Luchetti, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's docUWM media center. Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.
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Frank O’Hara writes a letter to Larry Rivers
The letter is dated June 27, 1953: <<<Someone who didn't like me could say, "Sure, all you have to do is show him Larry Rivers or the sea, and out comes a poem;" but…
