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Jen Benka to direct Academy of American Poets
<<< June 11, 2012 — The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Jennifer Benka has been named the organization's next Executive Director. She will return to New York City, where she…
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Catherine Woodard, Guest blogger June 12-16
photo (c) Jerry Siegel This week we welcome Catherine Woodard as our guest blogger. Catherine has played coed, pickup basketball in New York City for three decades. She swerved to poetry in 2001 after an…
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Judy Garland on the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
On June 10, I was going to post this version of the Academy Award -winning song, two minutes and fifty one seconds of pure pleasure from that day's birthday girl — with powerful assists…
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Happy Birthday, Dave. Mr. Sinatra is on the line.
Hey, Dave, remember the time we went to the cocktail party at MOMA and ran into — well, you know. "That's Life"! Happy birthday, buddy. Love, Frank.
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Additional (haha!) women of mathematics
If you watched the recently posted video of Staven Smale, you saw Professor Smale reference Amie Wilkinson of the University of Chicago. Perhaps before long I'll show you some of Amie's work on pathological…
