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Poem for Mayor Bloomberg
Yesterday the phone rang at 4:40. Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America, said, "Tomorrow is `Put a Poem in Your Pocket Day,’ and Mayor Bloomberg has written a poem and…
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Who Knew?
In anticipation of the sixth annual Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 17th, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today published his first poem: Press Conference Pardon me, sir, I’ve a…
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Poetry in Motion Pictures (by Mitch Sisskind)
I have not been able to watch The Godfather in recent years. The first scene — the undertaker asking for "justice" — is too overwhelming and I can’t go on. It’s the same with…
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Two Byrons [by David Yezzi]
OK, it has been a day from hell–two days from hell, in fact. I don't know about you, but taxes were completely brutal this year. I envy you, if you are one of those…
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The Scene
The crowd waits for John Ashbery to begin his reading at The New School, April 15, 2008. More later . . .
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Mitch Sisskind and Professor Dinwiddie: a conversation
I’ve known George Dinwiddie, pictured at left, since we were boys together in Chicago. We played baseball togther, we climbed trees, and when George’s turtle died we buried it and dug it up every…
