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From Natchez to Mobile
In his Chronicles (2004) Dylan remarks that growing up in Minnesota he responded with great feeling to Harold Arlen’s songs. Woody Guthrie ruled Dylan’s universe, and Arlen worked in a different genre altogether, but…
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The Mountain is Holding Out [by Paul Muldoon]
The Mountain is Holding Out The mountain is holding outfor news from the seaand the raid on the redoubt.The plain wont level with me for news from the seais harder and harder to find.The…
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“A Step Away from Them” [by Frank O’Hara]
A Step Away from Them It’s my lunch hour, so I gofor a walk among the hum-coloredcabs. First, down the sidewalkwhere laborers feed their dirtyglistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmetson. They protect…
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E. Ethelbert Miller and the Collaborators
The last few months I’ve been collaborating with the visual artist Kebedech Tekleab. Kebedech was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She came to the United States in 1989. Kebedech once taught at Howard University.…
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“Don’t ask me about my business…” [by Mitch Sisskind]
A dream project of mine is to write a literary biography of Mario Puzo. I admire him as a great writer in a very special category that includes Dumas (in both his life…
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E. Ethelbert Miller and his first love
A few days ago, my first wife told me she was separating from her third husband. I joked with her and said maybe we should get married and start all over again. She laughed…
