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Give My Regards to Old Broadway on the 4th of July
as performed by Stuyvesant Hgh School alum James Cagney and chorus
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“I Like Americans” [by Ernest Hemingway]
I like Americans. They are so unlike Canadians. They do not take their policemen seriously. They come to Montreal to drink. Not to criticize. They claim they won the war. But they know at…
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“A Conversation with Poet David Lehman” [for “Staying Thirsty” Magazine]
Dusty Sang and staff of the redoubtable "Stay Thirsty" magazine conducted an interview with David Lehman about his poetry in general and "Playlist" in particular. Here's an excerpt: STAY THIRSTY: Your poem references music, movies,…
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On James Tate’s Last Poems [by Matthew Zapruder]
James Tate's posthumous collection of prose poems, "The Government Lake," is officially published by Ecco Press on July 2, 2019. It is a terrific book. I asked Matthew Zapruder to say a few words…
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from “‘Meditations in an Emergency” [by Frank O’Hara]
One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes–I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store…
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“Soufflette” – François Chaignaud makes serious contemporary work of old-style “Camp” [by Tracy Danison]
”Soufflette”FrançoisChaignaud-CarteBlanche©HelgeHansen.jpg I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style / And so I came to see him …/ He’d found my letters and read each one out loud…/…