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On your birthday, Willie Mays, we tip our caps to you [by Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider]
We got together in secret the other day and discussed the center field positionWe decided among ourselves you are the greatest in New York, which means everywhere. Sincerely, Joe DiMaggio,Mickey MantleDuke Snider
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It’s her party and she’ll laugh if she wants to [Happy birthday to you, Nin Andrews!]
(c) Nin Andrews. Inspired by Chapter "2000" in The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry 1988-2014 by David Lehman originally posted on April 20, 2015.
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Introducing Paris Performance Calendar – [by Tracy Danison]
“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy. There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it one of the first refinements of polished society.” “Certainly, Sir; and it has…
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Next Line, Please: Imaginary Trips to Real Places [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's Next Line, Please takes you for a spin around the world. The places are real and the experiences imagined, and yet there's something about this prompt that makes me feel like a tired,…
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Epigraph of the Month: JA quotes Pasternak on Mayakovsky
Here is the epigraph John Ashbery chose for his poem "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers":(in his first book, Some Trees): << He was spoilt from childhood by the…
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I Like Moll Flanders [by Molly Arden]
I like the book by DeFoe.The movie is only so so.But I should put that more positively.The movie is not ungood.My favorite left-handed complimentis what this guy I datedsaid when he saw me naked.He…
