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A Birthday Poem from Lee Upton
For David, on His Birthday in June Lilacs no longer bloom in this part of the state,and lilies of the valley have dwindled into dark buttered flecks.Instead we have the peony opening its packed…
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‘Swonderful
It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I’m going to celebrate the morning with a cento composed in this case of titles of popular songs I love, two per line: Poem in the Manner of a…
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Nashville Star-making machinery (by Ken Tucker)
Nashville Star is the country-music version of American Idol—its new season premiered last night on NBC. I hate American Idol (all that florid over-singing; melisma delpoyed as a bludgeon; Simon Cowell as a bludgeon…
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Welcome Ken Tucker!
Get ready for posts by the multi-talented always fascinating Ken Tucker. Ken Tucker is Editor-at-Large for Entertainment Weekly. He was the film critic for New York Magazine in 2005. Before that, he was Entertainment…
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But will he hook up with Padma Lakshmi? (by Mitch Sisskind)
Paulo Coelho is one of the most successful writers in the world. His books have sold millions of copies, he claims he was tortured by the Brazillian gov’t, and now he has a commercial…
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You will know what my riddle means
When you’ve eaten mangosteens. — Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories While waiting in the airport in Jinan, China, we…
