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  • Stacey’s “Guest Chair”

    October 26, 2020

    <<<After reading our post on painting fabric-covered furniture, Stacey Harwood sent us an email about her great “guest” chair. “I knew a white chair would not stay white for long in my NYC apartment so…

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  • Michael Donaghy: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    October 25, 2020

                  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Shibboleth   One didn’t know the name of Tarzan’s monkey. Another couldn’t strip the cellophane From a G.I.’s pack of cigarettes. By such minutiae were the…

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  • Happy birthday to you, Georges Bizet

    October 25, 2020

     

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  • “French Movie” [poem by David Lehman, movie by Scott Wenner]

    October 24, 2020

    Scott Wenner made this terrific movie of David Lehman's poem "French Movie" for Motionpoems in Fall 2011. French Movie I was in a French movieand had only nine hours to liveand I knew itnot…

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  • On His 75th Birthday

    October 23, 2020

    Oh, on summer mornings darting through The county club's immense parking lot of Antique cars restored with great affection   Or perfectly preserved: reds, greens, yellows, As if snatched from the nearby flower beds,And here the thwack of a struck tennis ballWas…

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  • “The Magnificent Seven” [by Elaine Equi]

    October 23, 2020

    The Seven Sages – a time-traveling band of philosophersappearing in ancient China, India, and Greece. The Seven Senses from which the Self must be emancipated. The Seven Dwarves — domesticated and Disney-fied into cuteness.Bashful…

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