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  • “Yes, You Can Say About Me” [by Stanley Moss]

    December 7, 2021

    "Yes, You Can Say About Me" (October 29, 2021) Yes, you can say about me:I loved grand opera, the blues, scat,oratorios, gospel, hymns, standards.I wrote American English.One afternoon, when I could have goneto a…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty): William Stobb [by Angela Ball]

    December 7, 2021

    Beep Boop Once like oxygen these people—you drove all night across Utah to sob peel puke-hair celebrate weddings supervise divorces in everyone’s best interest. Relationships shriveled in the relentless attack-phone-election-virus -five-star-economy-doom-delivery-system. Against the white…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty): William Stobb [by Angela Ball]

    December 7, 2021

    Beep Boop Once like oxygen these people—you drove all night across Utah to sob peel puke-hair celebrate weddings supervise divorces in everyone’s best interest. Relationships shriveled in the relentless attack-phone-election-virus -five-star-economy-doom-delivery-system. Against the white…

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  • All-Time Great Sentences

    December 6, 2021

    From Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schyster, 2005), p. 131. This sentence appears after the author has presented several rival versions of an incident during the 1968 presidential election campaign: “Where does the truth in…

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  • All-Time Great Sentences

    December 6, 2021

    From Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schyster, 2005), p. 131. This sentence appears after the author has presented several rival versions of an incident during the 1968 presidential election campaign: “Where does the truth in…

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  • “Homer at Home” [by Stephen Kampa, with commentary by Mary Jo Salter]

    December 6, 2021

    For the next two weeks, we will be publishing poems by Stephen Kampa [pictured left] chosen and presented by Mary Jo Salter. Out of nostalgia for the course catalogue of old, we are scheduling…

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