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  • And to Think That I Saw It All Walking Along the Quais de la Seine [by Tracy Danison]

    August 28, 2015

      View from the Ile de la Cité: In the shadow of the Hôtel de Ville, stronghold of Mayor Hidalgo, and suspected cowboy in the Paris Plage buy-out deal. Beware, said sources close to me, of things in…

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  • Happy Anniversary to us [by William Butler Yeats]

    August 16, 2015

    He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread…

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  • We’re On Vacation!!

    August 11, 2015

    We're taking a much needed break until September. We hope you are enjoying your summer. Stacey & David

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  • On Working with W. H. Auden: Illuminating Interview with J. Chester Johnson in Illuminations

    August 10, 2015

    Back in 2012, we posted two articles by poet J. Chester Johnson about his work with W.H. Auden on the revisions to the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. You can read Johnson's posts here and…

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  • Ahoy, Jerry Garcia! [by Alan Ziegler]

    August 9, 2015

    (Jerry Garcia died 20 years ago on August 9.)     One evening in 1971, a date and I are walking along Riverside Drive in the low 100’s, overlooking the park. We don’t have a…

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  • Question: What do you get when you give your host . . .

    August 7, 2015

    a tote bag by poet Nicole Santalucia from TicTacTote: filled with a set of Saltlickers from poet Jennifer L. Knox And a volume of the Best American Poetry 2015, by lots of poets?: Answer:…

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