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  • Maureen McLane: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    November 13, 2022

                                          Photo by Laura M. Slatkin, 2016 Paris _________________________________________ Belfast   Your velvet hills came to…

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  • Mark Doty, David Lehman, and Michael Braziller Discuss Frank O’Hara

    November 11, 2022

    Frank O'Hara (right) with the painter Larry Rivers, with whom he collaborated on "Stones." In 2010, at the Philoctetes Center in New York City, Michael Braziller moderated a dialogue between Mark Doty and David…

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  • Remembering My Dad on Veterans Day [by Stacey Lehman]

    November 11, 2022

    My dad landed on Utah beach, not as part of the first wave, thank god, or I probably wouldn't be here, but later, to clean up. He was a soldier in the 94th Infantry…

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  • Hail Kelly Full of Grace [by David Lehman]

    November 11, 2022

    Born today, Grace Kelly was twenty-six when she married Prince Ranier and became the princess of Monaco. Thus ended a brief but magnificent cinematic career. Astrologically, her charm, beauty, and royalty are all prefigured…

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  • Interpretation of Dreams (by Mitch Sisskind)

    November 11, 2022

                            Of whomsoever you dream That person is also dreamingOf you which is called theLaw of reciprocal dreaming! "Oh, I dreamed of this person"Or…

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  • Doris Day Knocks it Out of the Park

    November 10, 2022

    Listen to her do "Ten Cents a Dance" (1955) — and watch this incredibly sexy lady knock it out of the park: Or "A Hundred Years from Today": You can't tell me that hers…

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