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  • My Visit with Allen Ginsberg and Louis Ginsberg [by Alan Ziegler]

    June 4, 2015

       In late May, 1976, I got a call from Richard Goldstein, one of my journalism heroes and an editor at The Village Voice. (Check out his recently published gem of a memoir Another Little…

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  • Mark Eleveld: The Poetry Tent is too Small

    June 4, 2015

    I came up in the ‘poetry readings’ world under royalty. I was in the military for a small bit (small note about the military: When you are on, you are on, and when there…

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  • Mark Eleveld: The Poetry Tent is too Small

    June 4, 2015

    I came up in the ‘poetry readings’ world under royalty. I was in the military for a small bit (small note about the military: When you are on, you are on, and when there…

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  • Mark Eleveld: Nature’s first green is gold.

    June 2, 2015

    Robert Frost reads "Nothing Gold Can Stay" I was in an American Studies course in high school. It was my junior year. The course was taught by Mr. and Mrs Sprague. He worked in…

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  • Mark Eleveld: Nature’s first green is gold.

    June 2, 2015

    Robert Frost reads "Nothing Gold Can Stay" I was in an American Studies course in high school. It was my junior year. The course was taught by Mr. and Mrs Sprague. He worked in…

    Continue reading…

  • Monday Comic by Nin Andrews

    June 1, 2015

    Today's comic was inspired by a Chapter 2011 in David Lehman's State of the Art (Pittsburgh, 2015), which opens with the question, What makes poetry great?  David then goes on to quote famous poets' definitions of great…

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