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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: NOVEMBER 16, 2022
In the latest issue of Persimmon Tree, Cynthia Hogue curates a suite of poems on “Lament, Rage, and Resistance” focusing on the voices of second wave feminist poets Karen Brennan, Aliki Barnstone, Patricia Spears…
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“Days at the Races” [by Boris Dralyuk]
Days at the Races “Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.” — Groucho Marx Away they go, with their outlandish names,saddled with human baggage, desperate wagers —enough to make a thoroughbred go…
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Caravan Palace [by Lewis Saul]
French swing — or "Gypsy jazz" — originated with a group called the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Because Reinhardt was from…
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Maureen McLane: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo by Laura M. Slatkin, 2016 Paris _________________________________________ Belfast Your velvet hills came to…
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Mark Doty, David Lehman, and Michael Braziller Discuss Frank O’Hara
Frank O'Hara (right) with the painter Larry Rivers, with whom he collaborated on "Stones." In 2010, at the Philoctetes Center in New York City, Michael Braziller moderated a dialogue between Mark Doty and David…
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Remembering My Dad on Veterans Day [by Stacey Lehman]
My dad landed on Utah beach, not as part of the first wave, thank god, or I probably wouldn't be here, but later, to clean up. He was a soldier in the 94th Infantry…
