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  • “Everyone I Knew In High School Is Dead” by Jules Cohen

    July 27, 2011

    Pop the berries with a pencilthen rest up, unhookyour neck from the treeI slip coins into the slit in your thoughtsunlike a crippled branchcarried like a slingLight fumbles the gun I can’t seestanding behind the metalno…

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  • “Married Bitches” by Nicole Santalucia

    July 26, 2011

    Deanna Dorangrichia (l) and Nicole Santalucia, July 25, 2011 (photo by Cheryl Pawlowski) We are having a shotgun marriage, well, except we are not pregnant.  The marriage equality act goes into effect on the…

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  • This Just In . . . Bill Hayward at Apple/SoHo – August 8, 7:00 PM

    July 25, 2011

    Here's a chance to go behind the scene with the brilliant Bill Hayward, who is often feature here.  Bill will be at the Apple Store in NYC's SoHo on August 8th to talk about his many…

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  • Forgetting and Remebering (by Martin Stannard)

    July 24, 2011

    (Gadzooks! How I adore English life!) Homage to Paul Violi Too often I forget how it begins in the morning and ends in the early night. I forget how I love the way I…

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  • The Best American Poetry 2011

    July 24, 2011

    The line forms here, here, and here. –sdh

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  • “Brute Force” (1947) with Burt Lancaster in the background as I type

    July 24, 2011

    strong pentitentiary drama with good supporting cast directed by Jules Dassin I recommend it heartily on a night when TCM is finding liberty behind bars, a breakout, a pin-up girl that all the boys…

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