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Save the Date and Spread the Word: Reading in Troy, NY, September 13, 2017
David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His newest book of poetry is Poems in the Manner Of. Other poetry…
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“Tangerine” on the dance floor, courtesy of Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Eberly, and Helen O’Connell
Alternate lyrics in Bob Eberly's portion of the song. Mercer wrote them. – DL
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On Hitchcock’s Birthday [August 13]: His Cameo in “Marnie” [by David Lehman]
From Marnie (1964; screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, based on a novel by Winston Graham) is the second most Freudian of Hitchcock's movies, two quotes: Marnie: "Men! You say 'no' to one of them,…
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“Jeweat?” Tips from Ethel Cotton’s 1960 Course in Conversation [by Stacey Lehman]
A few years ago at the Tompkins County Friends of the Library sale I picked up a complete Ethel Cotton 1960 Course in Conversation comprising twelve lessons that promise to turn a shy wall…
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“I’ll Never Smile Again” (Sinatra, the Pied Pipers & the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940)
Here is how Tommy's sweet trombone mixed with amazing voice of the skinny kid from Hoboken. DL
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Reflections on Ireland [by Charles Coe]
I was in Dingle, Ireland recently to teach poetry in an American MFA program abroad. Some of my workshop sessions were held at An Diseart, an Irish spiritual and cultural center that shares the…
