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Mister President, Show Us Your Papers; Timeback100
Dear Bleaders, Hi. I can’t believe I am back here in the twenty-first century writing to you guys. I’ve thought of you a skillion times over the decades and I am laterally shivering to…
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El Morocco at the 92nd Street Y!
92Y’S LYRICS & LYRICISTS™ Presents “The Crowd's at El Morocco: The Heyday of the New York Nightclubs” And JULIE WILSON to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cole Porter Family DEBORAH GRACE WINER, Artistic…
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The Gambler’s Raison d’etre
Why do people gamble? "I think it's a biological necessity for certain types," said James J. Carrolll, so called "betting commissioner" of St Louis, who laid the odds for the Kentucky Derby and the…
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Changing Light: James Merrill, Ships’ Logs, and Shifts in Public Writing (by Leslie McGrath)
A few weeks ago, I ran a writing workshop at the James Merrill House with novelist and current Merrill writer-in-residence Jedidiah Berry (The Manual of Detection) and my husband Bill, a boat builder well-known…
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Good-bye, Phoebe Snow (1950-2011)
Here she is live in 1989: and this fabulous 1979 duet with Linda Ronstadt from “Saturday Night Live.”
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Stand and Deliver: Reviving the Art of the Recitation (by Leslie McGrath)
Like many American poets, I teach literature and creative writing at a university part time. This semester, along with a poetry writing course, I’ve been teaching Introduction to Poetry to thirty undergraduates, most of…
