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  • Happy birthday, Buddy

    December 12, 2010

    "Each time I chanced to see Franklin D. / He always said "Hi, Buddy" to me. . ."Happy 95th Frank.

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  • Random Notes

    December 12, 2010

    In case you've been away, Mitch Sisskind brings back The Stud Duck . . . David Lehman picks up an ASCAP Deems Taylor award  (read the comments for Sammy Davis Jr's tribute verse) . . .  and Laura…

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  • This Just In: The Latest on Dean Young

    December 11, 2010

    <<If you are reading this, you are probably a friend of Dean Young and/or a friend of poetry. And you may have heard that our friend is in a precarious position. Dean needs a…

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  • “the simplicity of patience” [by Jeff Oaks]

    December 11, 2010

    I didn't like Allen Ginsberg when I first read him.  I didn't get why those long lines and weird language was necessary.  It wasn't until I read the "wrong" book of his–the book that…

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  • O My Papa!

    December 11, 2010

    So she says Princess Leia's pop gave up the ghost.I said that's a hell of a way to describe Eddie Fisher.She said I never heard of Eddie Fisher.Did you know he had a national…

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  • Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Raymond Hammond, editor of NYQ Books and The New York Quarterly

    December 11, 2010

    NA:  I read that NYQ Books only publishes books by poets who have published in The New York Quarterly magazine.  How does that work?  Do you solicit manuscripts from these poets after they have…

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