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Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” [a Jamie Katz Recommendation]
Jamie Katz has been asked to select the ten musical albums that have made the greatest impact on him. He posts one album cover per day for ten consecutive days. This is his choice…
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“Check Back on May 22, 2021” [by Milton Obenzinger]
Today is my birthday May 22, 2020And my parents come to visitSitting on the couch after arriving from the deadThey whisper with each otherIn Polish that I can almost understandAnd they ask questions“Are you…
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Julius Jaffe: The Analects (5) [by Mitch Sisskind]
RABBI RABINOWITZ Julius Jaffe approached Rabbi Rabinowitz. He said, "I will marry Esther Tabachnik. I am 118 years old." Rabbi Rabinowitz said, "'Today I have begotten you.' (Psalms 2:7) On certain days — every…
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On Fats Waller’s Birthday: A Poem [by David Lehman]
Fats Waller Live in 1935 You and I both know why“all my blondes and brunettes”become“all my Harlem coquettes”when Fats Waller sings“Lulu’s Back in Town”after playing it on the pianoin 1935. Think of that: in…
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Workman’s Lunch [by Dean Smith]
The poem “Cardboard Note” stopped me in my tracks as I walked through New Orleans one summer in the mid-90s. I carried it in my head as a meditation for more than twenty years.…
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Give Me Back My Bloomers! (Catullus 420) [translated by Molly Arden]
Thallus, you lump,Lift your sorry carcass! I want no more of your clichés —yourGood things come to those who wait—I who have waited till the cows come homeand never come—you of the spontaneous overflowof…
