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Born on the Fourth of July
Keep on hoofing, Jimmy! Take it away: James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy via Noolmusic.com –sdh
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Jennifer L. Knox, Guest Blogger July 4 – 10
This week we welcome Jennifer L. Knox as our guest blogger. Jennifer's new book of poems, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, will be published by Bloof Books this fall. Her work has appeared…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Rebecca Loudon
What I didn't say when the gasworks shook their iron tailsin my direction There is a foot-shaped stain on the end of my mattress like Sibelius snapping a white tablecloth across the Baltic Sea…
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Sharing the Same Space in the Same Building by Stephanie Brown
I have a staff of thirty-seven people who work for me at a public library in Irvine, California and nearly half of them are immigrants to the United States. I think it’s safe to…
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Franz Kafka, 3 July 1883- 3 June 1924
Franz Kafka was born today. In the black-and-white Prague of his boyhood the sun shone yellow on the gray pavement. Debates were held in the cathedral. The rituals of life were very great. Every…
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Summer Sunburns by Stephanie Brown
I wasn’t sure what to write about today, so I asked my boss, Trish, for a suggestion, and she replied, “Summer,” and enumerated all the things I could write about: the last day of…
