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Happy birthday, Stacey!
"So laugh and sing, make love the thing, / Be happy while you may. / There's always one, beneath the sun / Who's bound to make you feel that way. / The moon is…
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Ben Jonson Proposes a Toast to Stacey Lehman on Her Birthday
Song: To Celia Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look…
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Ben Jonson Proposes a Toast to Stacey Lehman on Her Birthday
Song: To Celia Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look…
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Larry Rivers, August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002: A Master of Rhythm and Hues [by David Lehman]
Happy birthday, Larry Rivers. You'd have been 99 today. Yitzchoch Grossberg, your given name, translates as Isaac Big Mountain (on the model of Giussepe Verdi equals Joe Green) and I love you and your…
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Larry Rivers, August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002: A Master of Rhythm and Hues [by David Lehman]
Happy birthday, Larry Rivers. You'd have been 99 today. Yitzchoch Grossberg, your given name, translates as Isaac Big Mountain (on the model of Giussepe Verdi equals Joe Green) and I love you and your…
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Bukowski on His Birthday (August 16)
Many artists and writers gather their strength by opposing the established order, but sooner or later the successful ones are assimilated into the culture (Allen Ginsberg, the Beats, Black Mountain, San Francisco). Usually it…
