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“On Sinatra’s Birthday”
On Sinatra’s Birthday Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.But why try to change me now?An Englishman is happy when he's fighting for his queenand the dawn comes up like thunder. What a…
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“Tea for Two” times six
"Tea for Two"music by Vincent Youmanslyrics by Irving Caesar "Tahiti Trot": Shostakovich's take on"Tea for Two"John McGlinn and the Ambrosia Chorus ("Broadway Showstoppers")Art Tatum (1933, 1939, 1953)Nat King Cole (1957)Doris Day (1950)Frank Sinatra and…
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On Angela Ball’s “Hares” [by Jim Cummins]
photo © Steffi Wacker To talk about Angela Ball's brilliant poem, "Hares," which appeared in the Paris Review last winter, I really have to begin with a look at the voice of the speaker in the…
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Ashbery’s “The Skaters” — Great Poems of the World, episode 16, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Here's Part One of "The Skaters," John Ashbery's 700 line poem that appeared in his book titled Rivers and Mountains (1966.) The complete poem is available at this link: John Ashbery, "The Skaters" The Skaters I These…
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Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson
I am alive — I guess —The Branches on my HandAre full of Morning Glory —And at my finger's end — The Carmine — tingles warm —And if I hold a GlassAcross my Mouth…
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Emma Bolden: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________ My Mother Says There’s Beauty Even in the Midst of Loss but I am no longer listening, I am no longer looking out of the car window & into the outside…
