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  • Wednesdays with Denise [by Denise Duhamel]

    October 5, 2022

    WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISEOctober 5, 2022 Sharon Olds’ latest book BALLADZ was published yesterday. It is a tour de force of mature, startling, haunting poems that reach over time from the speaker’s childhood to the…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Six): Clarence Major [by Angela Ball]

    October 4, 2022

    Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving                                                      …

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  • Grace Cavalieri’s Milestone Birthday [Terence Winch]

    October 3, 2022

    Happy 90th birthday to the extraordinary & indefatigable Grace Cavalieri, an inspiration to all who know her. Poet, playwright, painter, and long-time host of “The Poet and the Poem” interview program from the Library…

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  • Jack Skelley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    October 2, 2022

                                      Jack Skelley, photo by Gary Leonard ______________________________________________________ Green Goddess   Who made the salad Whose tangy vinegar…

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  • Quote of the Day: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (1903-1989)

    October 1, 2022

    Born on this day, 1903, in Kyiv, Ukraine. “Always there should be a little mistake here and there – I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It…

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  • BAP 2009: The Gala Launch [by Liz Howort]

    September 29, 2022

    The Best American Poetry 2009 gala launch reading on Thursday, September 24 [2009] featured  prize-winning poets (such as John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, and Richard Howard), but it will also be remembered for…

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