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Rowan Ricardo Phillips on the Tennis Circuit [by David Lehman]
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey by Rowan Ricardo Philllips (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) effortlessly proves an important point and raises a fascinating question. The point is that a talented poet such as Mr. Phillips…
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Awl the way with Mark Bibbins
We're thrilled that Mark Bibbins will begin posting selections from the poems he published as the poetry editor of the now-shuttered "Awl" magazine. Mark is the author of four books of poems: Sky Lounge, which…
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“It Had to Be You” (music Isham Jones, lyrics Gus Kahn)
One of the top ten love songs in anybody's book; as sung by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest) — DL
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Come Rain, Come Shine, This Time or Some Other: a perfect division of labor [by David Lehman]
On Valentine's Day, the day before Harold Arlen's birthday, the day after Eileen Farrell's birthday, listen to this song with Music by Harold ArlenLyrics by Johnny MercerVocals by Eileen FarrellInstrumentals by Leonard Bernstein then…
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Next Line, Please: Stanzaic Choreography [by Virginia Valenzuela]
"Stanzaic Choreography," a phrase coined by the witty Angela Ball, has been favorably chosen to describe the dance of words and ideas going on every week on the Next Line, Please column. And especially…
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WILLIS BARNSTONE DUET WITH JOHN KEATS [by Andrei Codrescu]
Barnstone & Codrescu in Prague 2003 At the age of 92, Willis Barnstone is a miracle. The translator of The Gnostic Bible (2003) and The New Covenant: Commonly Called The New Testament (2009), he has…
