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Meet the Press: Dos Madres Press—An Interview with Robert Murphy and David Giannini
Dante Di Stefano: How did Dos Madres come into being? Robert Murphy: Like Athena the Press sprang from the head of Zeus – along with a headache – or was it from his thigh…
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ברוך דיין האמת / Baruch dayan ha-emet: Max Fuchs, War Hero, 2/10/1922 – 6/4/2018
Max Fuchs (L) helped lead a historic service for Jewish-American soldiers in Aachen, Germany, in 1944. (Screenshot: YouTube via JTA) Max Fuchs, a rifleman in the First Infantry Division of the US Army, died…
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America’s Top Bard: My Last Exchange with Don Hall [by David Lehman]
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Donald Hall <[email protected]> wrote: Dear David, Amazing, "America's Best Top Poet." At least they don't say "Bard." Guest appearances on Fox News? Did Bill and Hillary Clinton really do guest…
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Next Line, Please: The Violet of Roses [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's post of Next Line, Please (poems inspired by a poet or poem from the past) left us with a little bit of a ghost, a shadow, something to be said. In other…
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Sunny days in the City of Light, women acquaintance, Aunt Helen, emotion and the bigger questions of history [by Tracy Danison]
"Les Enfants du 209, Rue Saint Maur, Paris Xème", directed by Ruth Zylberman is as absorbing as that wonderful Italian cinematic opera di saponi, La meglio gioventù, (The Best of Youth), directed…
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Stars and Stripes: Ballet by George Balanchine, the Russian émigré who loved America [by Stacey Lehman]
George Balanchine loved America. This Russian émigré choreographer, who founded the New York City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, delighted in everything from the songs of George Gershwin to the city's ''Don't Walk'' signs. When…
