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  • Why Lee Wiley?

    July 8, 2021

    Lee Wiley (1908-1975) was the greatest girl singer you may never have heard of. Try her interpretations of these tunes: Let's Fall in LoveO! Look at Me NowManhattanStreet of DreamsSoft Lights and Sweet MusicTime…

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  • Lionel Fogarty [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    July 7, 2021

    I first came across Lionel Fogarty's poetry in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead. At the time, I was pretty well ignorant of contemporary Indigenous Australian…

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  • Name the Artist

    July 6, 2021

    Name the artist, the painting, and the year!

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Eight) The News from Great Britain: Martin Stannard [by Angela Ball]

    July 6, 2021

    THAT THING We once had one in our housewith handles on both sides. But I forget its name. Sometimes I even forget my own. The self is an overlaying of multiple identities, comprised not…

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  • The Alphabet as Hero: A “Next, Line Please” Entry

    July 6, 2021

    This post appeared as a  "Next Line, Please" entry on The American Scholar website, July 17, 2018: For next week, our missionwill beto test our abilityat compressionand brevity,with our customary civility. But first let’s…

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  • Ted Berrigan on the 38th Anniversary of his Death: Posthumous Pick of the Month [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 4, 2021

                                          © Mark Hillringhouse Photography _________________________________________________________________________________ New Personal Poem to Michael Lally You had your own…

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