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Squib 422: What a Swell Party it Was [by Alan Ziegler]
Any survey of the Top Parties of the 20th Century is bound to include Truman Capote's Black & White Ball ('66), Rothschild's Surrealist Ball ('72), Bianca Jagger's 30th Birthday at Studio 54 ('77), and…
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“Hidden Bird” [by Joseph Ceravelo]
Song birds enter the morningthe pre-dawn before the fires,you know, when the night floats awaylike vapor on a lake,or like kisses in the woods.Songs that even creationmight not remember. Continuous, threaded, as ifa cherry…
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I Sit and Sew [poem by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)]
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of…
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Michael Friedman, 1960-2020 [by Roger Gilbert]
Poet, novelist, editor, and lawyer Michael Friedman died of cancer on May 5 in Denver. In the literary world Michael was best known as the editor and publisher of Shiny, which Ron Silliman in…
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“Psalm 94” [by Laurance Wieder]
Up, up, and show yourselfThe judge of people doing what they want, Saying what they will and damnThe consequences. “Nothing follows, meaning’s Deader than the children …
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“Bikini Waxes and Taxes” [by Beth Gylys]
You don’t want to head to Floridawith a Chewbacca crotch,nor for Congress to passa tax cut for the rich. Terrifying thoughts: tuftsweaseling out the edgesof your bathing suit, billionaireswith blond wives posingbehind placards of…
