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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood-Lehman; Ghost Poet: John Ciardi
I'm continuing my stint as Medium of the Month over at the Inquisitive Eater. Here's my most recent post: Today’s ghost poet is John Ciardi (1916-1986). In addition to being a professor and prolific…
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David Lehman: Featured Creative at Ideasmyth
To help us celebrate the publication of David's Sinatra's Century: One-hundred Notes on the Man and His World, Victoria Rowan over at Ideasmyth has made David her "Featured Creative" this week. Here's the first…
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Neighborhood Bully (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
I have been thinking about Israel a lot in the last few months as I finished off work on a new book titled The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress.…
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Medium of the Month: Stacey Harwood-Lehman; Ghost Poet: W.H. Auden
In the spirit of Halloween, I'm serving up poets from the past for the New School's Inquisitive Eater. Here's my second post, about a W.H. Auden poem inspired by M.F.K. Fisher: M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992),…
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Tales of the Eighties: Sinatra Nods [by Alan Ziegler]
(In honor of publication of David Lehman's Sinatra's Century.) 1980, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn are leading a quartet at Fat Tuesdays. After two wonderful sets, I’m about to leave when I overhear a waiter…
