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Happy Birthday Mr. B! (by Stacey Harwood)
(Prodigal Son – George Balanchine rehearsing Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo by Paul Kolnik) Today is George Balanchine's birthday (he was born in 1904) and I am over the moon with excitement about tonight's New York City…
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“As endearingly prepared as a professor on the first day of class. . . ” David Lehman and Rick Moody at the 14th Street Y
About sixty people crowded into the make-shift theater at the 14th Street Y last night to hear David and Rick Moody talk about Bob Dylan. Here's a review of the evening by Kai Twanmoh…
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In NYC? You cannot miss the Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters & Poets 60th Anniversary show
We went to the opening last week and it was so crowded that we didn't have enough time to take in all of the artwork and memorabilia on display. Plus there are a couple…
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This just in: A Few Seats Left – Grab ’em if you don’t know your chastushkas – and even if you do . . .
Sonnets and sestinas, sijo and sapphics, tanka and triolets, cinquains and chastushkas-poetic form is a gift to the reader and a challenge to the writer. For centuries, poets have written in structured forms…
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On the Importance of Literary Friendships (by Leslie McGrath)
We learn many things about being writers while in graduate school and our skin grows thicker through the rough polish that work submission gives us, but where do we learn about how to establish…
