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Was “Strangers in the Night” Sinatra’s best album of the 60s? Marc Myers thinks so [by DL]
Was "Strangers in the Night" Sinatra's best album of the 60s? Marc Myers thinks so. In today's Wall Stret Journal Mr Myers has an excellent, informative,and thoughtful piece on the song, which rose to…
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Listening to Jonathan Schwartz on the Radio [circa 2007-08] by David Lehman
<<< At the moment [2007] I am listening to “Frank’s Place” on XM-Satellite Radio. Host Jonathan Schwartz just played a song written by his father, Arthur Schwartz: "I Guess…
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On Composing a Poem About Orson Welles [by Laurence Goldstein]
What follows is a portion of a work in progress examining the way Orson Welles and his films have been appropriated and recast in poetry and fiction. This section focuses on my own experience…
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RIP: Bill Berkson, poet, editor, mainstay of the NY School’s second generation
I had this e-mail exchange with Bill Berkson, April 21-22, 2016, regarding a "a fact check for [his] portrait of Kenneth [Koch] in a book of memoirs [he was] putting together and that Coffee…
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A Few Last Words, Lines, and Octaves [by Amy Allara]
My week as guest author has come to a close, and it seems quite fitting to take my leave after leaving you with David Lehman's poem "Radio" to read and listen to. For such…
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Fallacious, pathetic phenomenon likely to shape French future
Karine and I met in a café where a giant, silenced television screen scrolls bits of catastrophe: Raaqua drone strike! US mass shooting beneath jerky images. This, near the rue de Rivoli, early in…
