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“I SAID I WASN’T GONE TELL NOBODY… [by Dante Micheaux]
but I couldn’t keep it to myself”, says the refrain of a gospel song, close to my heart—especially when sung by Mother Eloise Knight of Jerusalem Baptist Church, in Trenton, New Jersey. And I…
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Paradise in Hot Contention, Possibly Lost [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearling Bleaders, Went out to Governor's Island, Brooklyn's new backyard, last Saturday which happened to be flapper day. Sweet band, great dancing. The day rather fluttered than flapped. Now it is September and all must…
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…and she makes poetry [by Dante Micheaux]
Besides making the best crab cakes in world and winning the Nobel Prize for astonishingly graceful yet epic prose, Toni Morrison is a consummate poet. On May 26, 2006, friends and family gathered to…
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Post-Emmy Haiku
Kyra Sedgwick, what the hell? Connie Britton, you were robbed, football muse.
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The Graham Method: an excerpt [by Dante Micheaux]
Jorie Graham is among the best poets writing in English and her poems have changed, both visually and in aspects of content, in a dramatic way—most evident from one collection of poems to the…
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Horse as main course (by Luke Meinzen)
(Meat Vendor in Mongolia. Photo (c)Leigh Wells) After reading about the photographs of Mongolia on view at Tibet House last month, Luke Meinzen sent along this piece about an experience he had during…
