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maria-espinosa's picture
Jul.16.2008
ABOUT EVE: PART 3 Once she had been young and hopeful. Once she had lived in an apartment, and she had shopped for groceries. Now she...
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steve-hauk's picture
Jul.16.2008
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is tucked into a woodsy residential area of Carmel, California. If you didn't know otherwise, you'd assume it's...
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arlene-goldbard's picture
Jul.16.2008
All the media world's a-twitter about the New Yorker cover caricaturing Barack and Michelle Obama as the right's terrorist nightmare: fist-bumping in...
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belle-yang's picture
Jul.16.2008
I have a burning question: What is poetry? I see the stars are again in alignment. We have Matthew Biberman, Evie Shockley, Cheryl Snell, Marilyn...
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barbara-berman's picture
Jul.16.2008
ISRAEL IS A TALE OF FAMILY TRAGEDIES LIVED OUT WITHIN SMALL DISTANCES.      DINA KRAFT, THE NEW YORK TIMES    7-16-08 IT IS ALWAYS WORTH ITEMIZING...
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shana-mclean-moore's picture
Jul.16.2008
I’m usually bursting with pride whenever I don the ol’ running shoes and shuffle off to skim the surface of the pavement-- even though I soon look...
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geoffrey-thorne's picture
Jul.16.2008
So I'm gearing up for the fabulous annual San Diego Comic Book Convention. I went once, a billion years ago and then had a billion year gap for no...
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matthew-kennedy's picture
Jul.16.2008
http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/
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karen-dionne's picture
Jul.16.2008
-- or until the supply runs out.  Details at The FREEZING POINT Pre-Publication World Book Tour.  Enjoy!
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.16.2008
Tonight, I again enjoyed the dubious pleasure of sitting through one of Mr Data's poetry readings - it was almost as excruciating as reading an issue...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
The weather outside is cool and breezy, so I have all the windows open to get as much fresh air inside as possible. It feels so good to feel the...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
Yesterday morning I faxed over to Victim's Comp the letter from KidThree's former pediatrician stating that all our OTC supplies were medically...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
Yesterday morning I faxed over to Victim's Comp the letter from KidThree's former pediatrician stating that all our OTC supplies were medically...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
There is so much going on these days, my head is spinning. But first: last night we saw Paris Hilton's response ad to John McCain's campaign ad...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
Back online, at home, at long last. Three and a half hours with Steve the Computer Guy and this computer is good to go. Or at least as good to go as...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
After my session at the library today, it's off to Fry's to get a wireless router. This under instruction from The Computer Guy who is coming out...
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susan-brown's picture
Sep.21.2008
The computer still isn't hooked to the internet. The one business advertising computer repair in our local phone book no longer repairs computers, so...
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justin-vela's picture
Sep.21.2008
Helsinki-Two days ago I got rejected by the Russians. It felt like an incredibly personal thing, to be denied entry to their country. My visa...
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lina-ru's picture
Sep.20.2008
by Lina Ru
When we speak about peace, what do we mean? Do we mean to live inner peace or outer peace?  Outer peace does not depend on us, but inner does.  I...
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dylan-foley's picture
Sep.20.2008
(Originally published in the Newark Star-Ledger in June 2008) The poet Sarah Manguso was attending Harvard University in 1995 when she was struck...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.