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“Columbia College 1967, #24” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Columbia College 1967, #24Ellen Erlanger, Barnard Student I’m taking a class called Women in the Modern Novel.Everyone knows that the teacher, Professor Sims,Is not well so it’s kind of an emotional experienceTwice a week…
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“William Holden, Model Prisoner” [by David Lehman]
from The American Scholar <<<William Holden, arguably the model for American men of his era, plays a prisoner of war in two major motion pictures. The Germans hold him and other American airmen captive…
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Met Percent: Week Fourteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Beauty-Writing (Callos-Graphia) “Handwriting is jewelry fashioned by the hand from the pure gold of the intellect.” – treatise on the penmanship of Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, 9th century. The diacritical marks indicate vowels (the alphabet…
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“On Leading Multiple Lives” [by David Lehman]
Dusty Sang, editor of Stay Thirsty, asked me to contribute a guest column to his on-line journal. It is in three parts bearing the title "On Leading Multiple Lives." Part one is below followed by…
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Squibs 355-364 [by Alan Ziegler]
355: Unemployment Office, 92nd and Broadway, mid-1970s: Laid-off (not fired) workers wait weekly on long lines to affirm they are actively looking for work. No check-in, no check. So many dancers, musicians, and actors on…
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Dream Pairing: Amy Gerstler and Matthew Zapruder at Beyond Baroque January 17
Fri, January 17, 20208:00 PM – 10:00 PM PST Location Beyond Baroque681 Venice BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90291 Nationally acclaimed poet and former New York Times Magazine Poetry Column editor Matthew Zapruder reads from his latest book, Father’s…
