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  • Imperial Coffee Shop, Church and Chambers, NYC 12/23/08 – 1:00 PM

    December 23, 2008

    Lunch! Or, Grilled Swiss on Whiskey:   'Tis a thing of beauty. — sdh

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  • Happy Holidays (by Laura Orem)

    December 23, 2008

    A confession – I’m not very prepared this week, having succumbed, as usual, the holiday insanity. Today I’ve got cookies, wrapping, and cleaning on the agenda, and, what with the rest of the holiday…

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  • The Inaugural Ode Contest: And the Winner Is . . .

    December 23, 2008

    But first, the runners up. Last month, we announced The Third Annual Best American Poetry Poem Challenge, for which poets were invited to write an inaugural ode, suitable for reading aloud on January 20,…

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  • “Drunken Winter” by [Joseph Ceravolo]

    December 23, 2008

    Drunken Winter Oak oak! like likeit then   cold some wild paddleso sky then;flea you say"geese geese" the boyJune of winterof againOak sky – Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988). "Drunken Winter" (1967) owes its effect to "the…

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  • Literary Rapallo: a mini-quiz [by Moira Egan]

    December 23, 2008

     [Antico Castello in Rapallo harbor. The poet of question #1 lived in one of the houses up the hill] 1.  This Irish poet described Rapallo's coastline as a "thin line of broken mother-of-pearl along the…

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  • Professor of Doubt [by Grant Trevor]

    December 22, 2008

    Theresa Wright, Joseph Cotten "She has a boy's name, the same name as her uncle's.Charlie.She is the shadow of the professor of doubt,innocence in a skirt amid the dirtin 1943.But ask yourselfthis and answer…

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