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  • Great lyrics: Frank Loesser, “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old”

    May 7, 2025

    << This sheet music is for the song “They're Either Too Young or Too Old,” from the film Thank Your Lucky Stars. The music was written by Frank Loesser and composed by Arthur Schwartz,…

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  • “That Harp You Play So Well” [by Shannon Doyne]

    May 7, 2025

      from The New York Times Poetry Pairing | ‘That Harp You Play So Well’ By Shannon Doyne  May 13, 2016 7:09 am Credit Peter Arkle In this, our last Poetry Pairing for the school year,…

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  • Freud Quiz No. 32: Willie Mays weighs in

    May 6, 2025

    Heartfelt happy birthday wishes to the late Willie Mays born today, on May 6, 1931, echoing the birthday of Sigmund Schlomo Freud on May 6, 1856. The fact that the father of psychoanalysis and…

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  • The new issue of “The Common” is here — and uncommonly good

    May 5, 2025

      Dear Readers, It's a rainy spring day here in Western Massachusetts, the kind that seems to portend flowers, growth, and green. A perfect day to launch our spring issue, #29!  We excited to…

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  • Self-Doubt with poems by Diane Raptosh, David Tucker, and Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]

    May 5, 2025

    My book, Son of a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems, was just released from Etruscan Press. I   am very excited. I am also enormously grateful to Etruscan Press, which is one of my…

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  • “Zaftig” [by David Lehman]

    May 5, 2025

    The Lehrhaus Zaftig by David Lehman  -  June 26, 2024 The word means fleshy in a sensual, feminine way,though sometimes it just means extra large.It’s a word you may not know if you’renot from New…

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