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The competition was fierce!
but A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs picked up a Deems Taylor award last night at the annual ASCAP award ceremony. "I'm just a lucky so and so," said David when accepting his…
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It’s Emily Dickinson’s birthday, the voice on the radio said. [by Jeff Oaks]
My father has been dead for ten years today. I woke up in the dark hotel to a phone call: a nurse saying, “Your father’s condition has changed.” I’d spent the last three days…
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Freaks come sit by me [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darling Bleaders, There are a lot of ways to tell a story and one way is that sometime after my friend SH took her life I was teaching Elizabeth Bishop’s Collected Poems in the…
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“Phobic” [by Claudia Burbank]
Fear of opening one’s eyes.Fear of glaring light.Of black sand, the stepping onto.Fear of babies’ soft heads, abandoned shoes.Of open mouths, that bees will hive there.Fear of flowers that refuse to be named.Of cut…
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Prehistoric Women (by Mitch Sisskind)
For more than a year now I've resided only a few blocks from the little cemetery where Marilyn Monroe's crypt may be found. This cemetery is in the middle of the…
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The Last Day of Classes [by Jeff Oaks]
I'm posting this late because I've had no time at all to compose or even think straight. It's the last day, for me, of classes this term. I've ordered pizzas for the two classes,…
