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The Year in Review: Blue and Sentimental by Ira Sadoff (September 27, 2012)
Last day of blogging and “I’m sweating a lot by now” which is a line from O’Hara’s tribute to Billie Holiday and arguably the best elegy about jazz ever written (“The Day Lady Died”).…
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Edmund Wilson and His Wife, Elena, Have Dinner with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Husband, Eugen Boissevain, August 6, 1948. (by Jim Cummins)
Is it hot in here, or is it just me? They both seem so much older now than I— can this be so? Do women age like dogs, or something out of Wilde? Seven…
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Have We Got A Sweet Hookup For You
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The Year in Review: Poetry, Community, and Identity, An Essay in Installments–Part 5 by Jonathan Farmer (September 21, 2012)
Reading and writing are solitary pleasures, and yet both can offer a profound sense of connection. Writing these posts, I hear what I always do when I write, a version of my own voice,…
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Sherman Yellen on “That Deadly Pinter Sneer”
<<<Harold Pinter nearly killed me. Not with a knife, a bullet, or a karate chop, but with that most deadly of all weapons, a lofty sneer. While I was working at Shepperton Studios in…
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The Year in Review: A Poem and a Mistake (and an Error) by Amy McDaniel (September 12, 2012)
Ovid claimed that the cause of his exile to Tomis was carmen et error – a poem and a mistake. Recently, I've been thinking a lot about mistakes and errors. In everyday usage, these can…
