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Will the Real Cary Grant Please Stand Up? [by David Lehman]
In the TV show "To Tell the Truth," there were always three individuals pretending to be the prominent or accomplished figure, an adventurer or a war hero, and the panel had to choose who…
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Bob Holman, Guest Author January 19-23
This week we welcome Bob Holman as our guest author. Bob is the author of 16 poetry collections, most recently Sing This One Back to Me (2013), Picasso in Barcelona (2011), and A Couple of…
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Ready to Serve: “The restaurant was my rock” [by Anna West]
Anna West at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco Waitressing saved my life. In 1983, I was playing bass in a San Francisco punk band and taking speed to keep going. Most nights I practiced…
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“Introducing “Ready to Serve: Writers and Artists in the Resto Biz “
I’m delighted to announce that today we introduce a new weekly series, “Ready to Serve: Writers and Artists in the Resto Biz.” We got the idea after reading that Stephanie Danler had landed a two-book…
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A Little Preserve: Poetry and Walking Meditation [by Abby E. Murray]
“Now I go wherever / birds are everywhere; / now I go anywhere / birds go, / having gone nowhere / they could not go.” – from Marvin Bell’s “The Giving In” There is…
