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  • The Female Form (by Mitch Sisskind)

    September 12, 2017

                                                                                     This is the female form.                   …

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  • “Tower Two” [by Kirsten Chen]

    September 11, 2017

    Tower Two I have since imagined you–      a thousand pounds ofpaper, escaping windows      floating to safety      from a hundred stories higher. I have since spoken to you on…

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  • “What’s My Line?” (of 11 / 11 / 56) [by David Lehman]

    September 10, 2017

    Episode of November 11, 1956, "What's My Line?" moderated by the erudite John Daly, with panelists Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Random House publisher (and Columbia grad) Bennett A. Cerf. And who's the mystery…

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  • I Saw IT (by Mitch Sisskind)

    September 10, 2017

                            After a very bad summer, Hollywood is looking to IT for a bailout. IT might work, we'll see. IT is a horror movie…

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  • Remembering John Ashbery: “You were often delighted.” [by Danielle Pafunda]

    September 10, 2017

      A photo I took of a newspaper clipping John Ashbery tore out for me (21 years ago, I can't believe the thing's still in one piece and among my oft moved belongings!) I…

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  • Art Tatum, “Tea for Two” [by David Lehman]

    September 8, 2017

    When Art Tatum played piano, God was in the house  

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