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Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” on New Year’s Eve [by David Lehman]
New Year’s Eve Champagne and a ribeye, that’s the ticket,Beethoven’s string quartet in C# minor,and good riddance to the plague year.The mind can provide, provide,and theories will continue to proposethemselves in politically incorrect seminarsin…
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“More Mush from the Wimp”
6) The least read (most ignored) “important” poet in English is (a) Dryden (b) Spenser (c) Pope John Paul II (d) John Lennon in his “Rubber Soul” period (e) Sara Teasdale (7) Who…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 28, 2022
Happy New Year, everyone! Here is a poem by Ted Kooser. YEAR'S END Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into…
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Quote of the Day: David Sedaris’s Advice to Oberlin College Grads
Choose one thing to be terribly, terribly offended by, this as opposed to the dozens or possibly hundreds that many of you are currently juggling. Stand up for what you believe in, as long…