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Stand by me [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
The Split This Rock Poetry Festival started yesterday. I missed the opening ceremony and the featured readings with Andrea Gibson, Wang Ping, Cornelius Eady, Holly Bass, Beny Blaq and Derrick Weston Brown. I was…
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‘Mad Men’ dolls: Barbie and Ken get some competition
Not content to daydream about the scenarios in which you'd like to place your favorite characters from Mad Men? Bored waiting for the new season to begin? Play with dolls. Barbie dolls. Barbie dolls…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Tom Healy and Mark Doty read to a very full KGB Bar on Monday night. Tom read from his first book, What The Right Hand Knows (a finalist for the LA Times Book Award).…
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Gyms and Poets [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, How do you decide to get your Ph.D. in Cultural History, thinking about poems and pictures all day, and end up with a Ph.D. in the History of Science? It’s funny you…
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Live from London!
We were in London last month for Jewish Book Week where David talked about A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs with writer and filmmaker Naomi Gryn. The session was recorded and is now…
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Does my blurb come with that book? by E. Ethelbert Miller
Yesterday, Holly Karapetkova's manuscript came in the mail. The title is Words We Might One Day Say and it's going to be published in a few months. Holly wants a book blurb. I met…
