Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…
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I mostly associate the artist Saul Steinberg with the work he did for The New Yorker and the last time…
What use is poetry? .... We have poetry So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…
Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…
If you've ever been young and full of dreams .... If you ever headed to the big city with your…