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“You’ll Get Nowhere” and “Superannuated Man” [by Mitch Sisskind]
You’ll Get Nowhere In the whole world only one restaurantWas patronized by both Leon TrotskyAnd Bela Bartok. That would be theOld 57th Street Automat in Manhattan.Go into any restaurant today and askWhether…
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A Blast from the Past: Fake MFA Rankings (2010) [by Stacey Lehman]
MFA Rankings – Not Again! It's hard to believe that Poets and Writers returned to the same poisoned well that it drank from last year for a ranking of MFA programs but it did,…
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“The Great DiMaggio” [an astrological profile, by David Lehman]
Joltin’ Joe: The Great DiMaggio [an astrological profile] Joe DiMaggio [pictured left, with sometime spouse] loved smoking. He favored Chesterfields, though he also enjoyed Camels and promoted them in advertisements. (“They have the mildness…
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Blast from the Past: When I Cancelled “The New York Times” [by Walter Carey]
Sometimes the news seems extravagantly self-satirical in a way that seems to outstrip the imagination of anyone writing under the constellation of Evelyn Waugh. As 2015 came to a close, the New York Times…
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On Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th Birthday (in 2011)
Mark Strand reading "First Death in Nova Scotia (c) Lawrence Schwartzwald Alice Quinn of the Poetry Society of America brilliantly organized the group reading Tuesday February 8th [2011] honoring the 100th anniversary of Elizabeth…
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Amala Dianor: Dance is an exchange of energy and liberation [By Tracy Danison]
Amala Dianor. Photo © Jérome Bonnet The choreographer dancer Amala Dianor has been in view recently, will continue to be in view for some time to come. I reckon it’s his will to get…
