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A Little More about Jerry Kern (by Laura Orem)
In response to the previous post, and in continuing honor of Jerome Kern's birthday, here are four versions (three video, one audio) of the remarkable song, "Ol' Man River," written with Oscar Hammerstein for…
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Happy Birthday, Jerry Kern
I hear music when I look at you,A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew.Down deep in my heartI hear it play,I feel it startThen melt away.I hear music when I touch your…
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Snow [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest darlingest Bleaders, This is beginning to seem like kind of a lot of snow. Am I wrong? I grew up around these parts and it seems to me when I was a kid…
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Video from the Dean Young Benefit [by Amy Lawless]
Dude, did you go to the Dean Young Benefit? I didn't either. So put down your self-flagellation devices and click this link that will transport you over to Coldfront where D.J. Dolack had the…
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Sneak Peek: Augury Books is co-curating an evening of poetry at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. 150 W. 17 St., NYC 10011 @ 7:00 PM
Indiana power plant after flood, 1913. Photograph by DJ Angus. Poets Kimiko Hahn, Saskia Hamilton, Noelle Kocot, David Lehman, Ben Lerner, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Stacy Szymaszek read poems by themselves and others on the themes of absence, emptiness, and…nothing. Here’s a poem…
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The Evening Got a Bit Fuzzy . . .
after our host, the Robert Burns scholar and The Balvenie Distillery ambassador Andrew Weir (below left) declaimed Burns' "Address to a Haggis": What I do remember is this: The outside temp was in the…
