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“Folklore” (for Tony Hoagland) [by Denise Duhamel]
–for Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) You were folklore in Tucson, where you graduated the year before I arrived, where I befriended Agha Shahid Ali, now also gone, whom you had befriended before me. Shahid…
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“The Triumph of Bullshit” [by T. S. Eliot]
Did you know that T. S. Eliot wrote a poem entitled "The Triumph of Bullshit"? Neither did I until I started reading The Poems of T. S. Eliot, volume one (Farrar, Straus & Giroux),…
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“Jayne Cortez and Ted Joans” [by Robert Hershon]
Twenty years ago or so, when I was still director of The Print Center, I was at a book party, chatting with Jayne Cortez [pictured left] and Ted Joans. “I need to come out…
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The Power of Tchaikovsky [by Lewis Saul]
Tchaikovsky died today! And if I were Frank O'HaraI'd note that it was on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, which is St. Petersburg again after a stint as Leningrad,but I am not. I…
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Squibs 335-342 [by Alan Ziegler]
335: She said Yankee Stadium (the original) “is very sensual.” I cautioned her to use sensuous—appealing to the senses—rather than sensual, or people would think she is sexually aroused by Yankee Stadium. She replied, “I…
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Sonnet, 11/5/2019 (by Mitch Sisskind)
In the old days working at Republic SteelWe gathered nightly at Moose Cholak’s Calumet Inn on 99th Street and Ewing. It was when polyester double-knit pantsWere coming in and one night this guy Said…
