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  • “Shuffled Marbles” by A. R. Ammons

    May 5, 2012

    Old men don’t care who they talk to, Idon’t know if you’ve ever noticed: they’ll say to a stranger stepped into the elevator,so, where are you going today, or absorbed in a monologue, they’ll…

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  • “. . . and turning for home it was Secretariat” by James Cummins and David Lehman

    May 5, 2012

    I was supposed to meet Monica, my secretary, at Three o’clock: where was she? I felt like a ruffian, Standing in the infield, watching the wind whirl away Lost tickets. A policeman approached. A…

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  • Susan Griffiths and Andy DiMino as Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin. . .

    May 5, 2012

    Susan Griffiths and Andy DiMino impersonate Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin on stage

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  • Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Lisa Bowden of Kore Press

    May 5, 2012

    NA:  Kore Press was founded in 1993.  What specific event, or series of events, inspired you to start a press Lisa Bowden LB:  I had worked with another small press (Chax Press) for five years…

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  • On Nothing by Timothy O’Keefe

    May 5, 2012

    from Hamlet:  Gertrude: To whom do you speak this? Hamlet: Do you see nothing there? Gertrude: Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.   Nothing is a noun, as in, “The world…

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  • Who wrote it, who sang it, and when?

    May 4, 2012

    Irving Berlin did not write "(There'll Be a) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin." Who did? And who recorded it? When? There'll be a hot timeIn the town of BerlinWhen the Yanks go…

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