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  • New directions or nude erections: the new “Next Line, Please” challenge

    May 23, 2025

    Next Line, Please “The Jester’s Magma” By David Lehman | May 19, 2025 Our new prompt: <<< Errors, mistakes, and slips of the tongue and pen are, as Freud taught us, neither innocent nor devoid of…

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  • “Rabbi Frankenstein” [by Mitch Sisskind]

    May 23, 2025

          That anyone could be named Rabbi FrankensteinSeemed impossible but Rabbi Frankenstein wasRabbi Frankenstein. That he had a glass eye alsoseemed impossible but there it definitely was. In the old days around1957…

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  • Echoes of 1968: Anne Sauvage, Atelier de Paris, June Events, public goods and the right to culture [By Tracy Danison]

    May 23, 2025

    “Là Sextet” by Pierre Pontvianne, June Events 2025. Photo © cieparc I had originally intended to put in a good word for “woke” with a chat about diversity, inclusion and living with the natural…

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  • Mahler’s 1st

    May 23, 2025

     

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  • I like to be in America [from “West Side Story”)

    May 22, 2025

     

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  • 2025 Yetzirah Jewish poetry conference: June 24-27, 2025

    May 21, 2025

     2025 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference with Sharon Dolin, Edward Hirsch, Dana Levin, and Victoria Redel:  If you’d like to join us online: This year, we’re trying something new for our online events. We’ll have ONE…

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