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“Put on your Yarmulka . . .” [by Erika Meitner]
I got back yesterday from a week in New York with my immediate and extended family for Thanksgiving, and I've almost recovered. All conversation is always being conducted at a yell in my family–think…
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Much Depends on Dinner: Cooking Latkes with Gabriella Gershenson [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
"Fried things are highly popular at any celebration: they add a piquant variety to the menu; they are nice to look at, possess all of their original flavor, and can be eaten with the…
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“Francois Villon Begins His Journey” [by David Lehman]
François Villon Begins His Journey [in…
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“Texting” [by David Lehman]
Does the triumph of the text messageover the phone call or voice mailimply that they were wrong all along,those analysts of the textwho said that the spoken wordis invariably “valorized”to the detriment of the…
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Traveling and Returning [by Tami Haaland]
Long ago, during the summer when I graduated from high school and turned eighteen, I went to Europe with the Montana Youth Choir. It was the usual month-long, fast-paced trip through eight or nine…
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Meet the Press: Shrew & Cat in the Sun Press
Dante Di Stefano: In his introduction to The Best American Poetry 1988 John Ashbery wrote: “there is not much ‘political’ poetry that I like for the reason that the political sentiments reiterated in it…
