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  • “Zero” by Pia Aliperti

    January 29, 2012

    I am glad if I can type zeros            Endre Tót Zeros of the world punch holes in the page.Put away chairs in an emptying auditorium.Make a space. When I…

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  • Will the Real Poet Please Stand Up? by Caroline Malone

    January 27, 2012

    My first impression of a poet came from listening to my mother and her friends talk about their attempts at being hipsters in high school. Apparently, my mother was not aware that the dark…

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  • Fly Me to the Moon!

    January 27, 2012

    Take a look at what Tom Devaney has artfully done with "OnandOnScreen," which is devoted to poets' pairing their work with a video of their choice. The current issue includes Catherine Wagner and Wayne…

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  • “I’ve Told Every Little Star” (music Jerome Kern, lyrics Oscar Hammerstein)

    January 27, 2012

     

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  • Jerry Kern, The song is you (who share this birthday with Mozart)

    January 27, 2012

    You and Mozart share this day. Happy birthday, Jerry (and you too, Wolfgang). I know you liked Frankie's version of this song cicra 1942. . . Just listent to that last falsetto note.  

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  • On the consolations of (very) old age

    January 27, 2012

    From "Out the Window" by Donald Hall in the New Yorker, January 23, 2012:<<<[My mother] died a month short of ninety-one. Her brain was still good. A week before she died, she read "My…

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