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  • “On Heaven” [by Ford Madox Ford]

    November 9, 2022

    On Heaven–To V.H., who asked for a working Heaven That day the sunlight lay on the farms;On the morrow the bitter frost that there was!That night my young love lay in my arms,The morrow…

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  • Two Poems by Nachoem M. Wijnberg trans. David Colmer [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    November 9, 2022

    David Colmer is an award-winning Australian translator who has translated over 15 volumes of Dutch-language poetry, including Even Now by Hugo Clauss, which was shortlisted for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: Jill Bialosky’s “The Deceptions”

    November 9, 2022

    POET AS PROTAGONIST: JILL BIALOSKY’S THE DECEPTIONS Jill Bialosky’s latest novel is driven by a poet narrator—her ambition, her intelligence, her desire and all that has been squelched. This protagonist will fascinate any reader…

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  • “When Miss Rheingold ruled New York City” (Tippi Hedrin was a finalist))

    November 8, 2022

    Did Hitchcock vote? from https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/new-york-citys-favorite-beauty-contest/ <<< Miss Harlem. Miss subways. Miss Brooklyn. The list of long-gone local beauty contests is filled with small-time titles and pageants.  But one mattered so much to residents, it…

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  • On Election Day, let us recall election years that really mattered. . .

    November 8, 2022

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Eight): Sharon Mesmer [by Angela Ball]

    November 8, 2022

    I Have Thirteen Penises — for Drew Gardner My first penis is a reclusive pet alligatorMy second penis is so not a girl figure skaterMy third penis was never declared unconstitutionalMy fourth penis is…

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