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The Year Brooklyn Won the World Series
The official 1955 team photo of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Top row, fifth from the left is Gil Hodges (#14) and fourth from the right, Duke Snider (#4) standing next to World Series hero Johnny…
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Po-Postcard from Rome [by Moira Egan]
Jorie Graham reading at the Centro Studi Americani last week. Of course, we English-language-starved expat poets are delighted when poets like Jorie come to read in Rome. But at Italian poetry events, be prepared…
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November 22, 1963
The day that Kennedy was killed Was the day before the Stuyvesant-Clinton football game. There was a rally in the auditorium And our coach who was from Texas or Oklahoma said…
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Get Your Orality On.
Drawing by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of Working Class Represent. — Get On The Griot Trail with Bob Holman and Papa Susso in West Africa. Mr. Holman is traveling around Africa with his griot…
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Significant Mother (by Joy Katz)
A regular column on poetry and motherhood Part Three: Robert Hass, Significant Father I have always admired Robert Hass for the women in his poems. They are more beautiful for their midlife repose and…
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“Dyserotica” [by Lee Upton]
Dyserotica There is utopiaand there is dystopia.There is erotica and there is….what you’ve written:Somehow— as if what twoat a minimumpeople might do or could doin another lifetime—if suddenly shipwrecked, for instance, or if it…
