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2022 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony [by Greg Pattenaude]
On Sunday July 24, I made the trip to Cooperstown to be part of the induction ceremony of this year’s class to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I was there to watch Gil Hodges,…
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“I look like I paint. Who am I?” [by David Lehman]
Rhapsodic blues. . taciturn Cal Coolidge. . ."you lose"as the market reaches record highs, speculators buy on margin,Babe Ruth makes more money than the president, having had a better year,Lucky Lindy to Paris, Showboat…
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The Ashbery Amusement Park Initiated on His Birthday
Where else but in Asbury Park, New Jersey, would we find the prototypical Ashbery Amusement Park? The "Haight-Ashbury" ride has been compared to a cyclone with a mentally challenging multi-level polyphonous vocabulary, for richer…
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Arthur Mitchell [by Marianne Moore]
Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly too rapid for the eye to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels of…
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“Tennis Court Ode” by Hazel Smith [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
John Ashbery, whose birthday is tomorrow, has been an important figure for several generations of Australian poets. This influence was acknowledged by the poet Michael Farrell, who in 2019 edited an anthology of Ashbery…
