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SAM AND JANET EVENING (A letter to my first friend’s mother at 100) by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
Dear Mrs. Erenstoft, You are the first person I know to celebrate a 100th birthday. I'd like to mark the occasion by sharing a few thoughts. Until 1991, when I read Molly Katz’s book,…
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LASAGNA AND MARGE by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
LASAGNA AND MARGE In her 70s, my mother began to call some women “Marge.” The real Marge, a kind, caring neighbor, visited my parents with homemade cookies and condominium gossip. She enjoyed my mother’s…
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GIVE MY REGARDS…by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
GIVE MY REGARDS… It is bad enough they aren’t writing musicals the way they once did. And that we no longer have a Frank Loesser. Or a Rogers and Hart. Or a Rogers and…
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EDWARD LEAR NOTEBOOK (with special reference to the limericks) :: [by Anthony Madrid]
1. A word on the phrase “nonsense poetry.” I am uneasy about it. I know the term nonsense was Lear’s own preferred expression for his la-la, but I think the designation has outlived its…
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Jorie Graham Wins Forward Prize in the UK!
Jorie Graham — the guest editor of the 1990 edition of The Best American Poetry — has been named the winner of the 2012 Forward prize in Great Britain, which is a really big…
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HELLO GIRAFFE by Nancy Davidoff Kelton
HELLO GIRAFFE This silver-framed picture of my friend, Doreen, is on a shelf next to my desk. The actual picture is four inches by six inches. Doreen was 5’ 10.” In 1965, the day…
