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  • “From a Window” [by Christian Wiman]

    August 18, 2008

    From a Window Incurable and unbelieving In any truth but the truth of grieving, I saw a tree inside a tree Rise kaleidoscopically As if the leaves had livelier ghosts. I pressed my face…

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  • By the way… [by Rachel Shukert]

    August 17, 2008

    Just in case you are wondering who I am, I’m a writer.  I write plays and I wrote a book called "Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories" and a lot of times…

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  • Live, from Amsterdam, it’s Rachel Shukert

    August 17, 2008

    Hello. As you can tell from the incredibly creative title of this entry, my name is Rachel Shukert.  I’ll be your guest blogger for this week of August 17, and I’m writing to you…

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  • Film Still Series – #72

    August 17, 2008

    From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman.

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  • Terita Heath-Wlaz presented by Bruce Covey

    August 17, 2008

    "Terita Heath-Wlaz," I thought, must be a pseudonym! Her poems, unsolicited in my inbox, so daring and so spicy! & an empty google return on her name! Yet she is indeed she, no persona,…

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  • “He Taught the Lindy to Arthur Murray”: Richard Rand’s Vaudeville Pop

    August 16, 2008

    Richard Rand, professor of engineering at Cornell University, offers these pages written by his late father, Al Rand, about his days in vaudeville. An excerpt from "Autobiographical Notes" by Al Rand (1904-1996) My partner…

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