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“If you love steak, you can love chicken, too!” An exchange between Jamie Katz and Lewis Saul
(ed note: Lewis Saul's tribute to Dave Brubeck, who died last week, prompted this affectionate exchange between Jamie Katz and Lew, two musicians who know their stuff. I thought it worth highlighting since both…
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The Year in Review: Word To World by Sholeh Wolpé (November 5, 2012)
My mother and her sisters were born in Ishqabad, “the city of love,” in Turkmenistan. She was educated in Cypress as a nurse, speaking both Turkish and Greek. She then went to Tehran, met…
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A perfect storm for revitalizing compassion for the natural world: Robert Hass and E. O. Wilson on Nature and Poetry [by Alissa Fleck]
Robert HassL: Robert Hass (Christian Science Monitor/Getty) R: E.O. Wilson (Cindy Ord/Getty) Who better to engage intellectually with nature-inspired poet Robert Hass about the intersections of poetry and the natural world than Edward…
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Thank you, Dave. bang! plop! crash! (Remembering Dave Brubeck) by Lew Saul
I escaped the public school system and spent my senior year of high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan, where I met 50% of the Brubeck kids – Kathy and Danny…
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“That will be interesting too” John Ashbery at the New School [by Philip Brunst]
On Saturday December 8, John Ashbery, hailed by Harold Bloom as “America’s greatest living poet,” read from his new collection of poems Quick Question (Ecco 2012), released this week, in front of a filled-to–capacity…
