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Tales of Food: The Ziti Movie [by Alan Ziegler]
One Saturday in 1974 I plan my eating day around the baked ziti at Mama’s, a little fast-Italian restaurant a couple of blocks from the New Yorker Theater on 89th St., where…
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An Interview with Richard Schober, Editor of The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso [by Daniel Nester]
It seems fitting that there's a Kickstarter campaign to publish a book related Gregory Corso. Back in the 1990's I remember stories, perhaps apocryphal, of Corso walking around the Poetry Project and telling people to give…
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When the flesh is husk, does the spirit speak? [by tree turtle]
Are the dead still with us? When the flesh is husk, does the spirit speak? Can a love be everlasting? Can a hurt be overlong? After a predator dies, are his crimes still wrong? When…
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It is well, it is well with our soul [by tree turtle]
Serious writers must sometimes explain that writing is not a hobby, not a leisure pursuit, and not a luxury. Rather, it is the most essential practice of our lives. Audre Lorde said it best:…
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This just in: Writing About Art in Barcelona
10-DAY POETRY WORKSHOP WITH SHARON DOLIN AT JIWAR: BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCE FOR ARTISTS MAY 31-JUNE 9, 2015 Joan Miró, The Caress of a Bird, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Live at Jiwar, a heritage house…
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Writing is just another way of caring about other people [by tree turtle]
It is Saturday July 28, 1990 at the now defunct Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center on West 96th Street in New York City. I am at a middle school children's writing workshop. Improbably, I…
