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Day 5: Loose Ends [by Lisa Vihos]
Last night was the 2014 Best American Poetry launch reading, and I surely wish I could have teleported myself to New York to be with you all. I trust you had a great evening.…
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#tbt: Much Depends On Dinner: Cooking with Lisa and George Vihos
(Ed note: Lisa's father is very much with us this week so I thought I would bring back this post from 2009.– sdh) L-R: Illia Mazurek, Lisa Vihos, Georg Vihos (Photo by Stephan Mazurek)…
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Day 4: A Year of Thursdays [by Lisa Vihos]
Here it is Day 4, a Thursday. In my blog, Frying the Onion, Thursday is significant because it is the day of the week that my dad died. Soon after this happened, a friend…
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My Grandfather, Apollinaire, and Max Jacob [by Alan Ziegler]
excerpted from Based on a True Life: A Memoir in Flashes (work in perpetual progress) Home during Christmas break from college in 1968, I go with my mother to see her father, Charlie Popowsky,…
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Libraries: A Love Story [Charles Coe]
As a kid, I was an incurable library rat. Raise your hand if you were one too. (Yep…thought so.) From the time I was nine or ten, old enough to wander around on my…
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Congratulations Terrance Hayes, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
This just in: Terrance Hayes, guest editor of the Best American Poetry 2014, has been named a MacArthur fellow. By Michael A. Fuoco / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Terrance Hayes, a nationally renowned poet and a…
