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Looking for Gold with Heather McHugh…tonight (by Jenny Factor)
A few months ago, I went on a search for meaningful ambiguity. I held pages to the light. I read upside down in the dark. I got lost in the Cave of Celan, and…
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More Martinis [with M. F. K. Fisher]
<< The first Martini I ever drank was strictly medicinal, for threatened seasickness, and in spite of a loyal enjoyment of them which may be increasing in direct ratio to my dwindling selectivity…
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Sinatra Stamp To Go On Sale
The USPS releases the Frank Sinatra commemorative postal stamp (first class: 42 cents) on Tuesday, May 13, ten years (minus one day) after the death of Old Blue Eyes. — DL
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“A Letter” by Alexandra Zelman-Doring
Alexandra Zelman-Doring A Letter I look where I left you, conducting long dialogue with the night.Interrupting to ask of the moon with fear I have taken in me too, ohmy love.Illusory the night watch…
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Taking care of business! (by Mitch Sisskind)
So many important things happening — but first, before anything else, here’s an amazing video clip! In 2006, watching the Jerry Lewis telethon, I saw Jerry sing Al Jolson’s "Mammy" — and i knew…
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“Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” by Sarah Binns
Here is a poem by Sarah Binns, the Mt. Holyoke College undergraduate who took second place in the the 85th annual Glascock Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College last month. Previous winners and…
