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Patricia Smith, Michael Cirelli, Ivan Brandon and more
It’s Spindle‘s penultimate update before the official launch in January and it’s the most eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography yet, including the debut of our first column, Mahogany Browne’s Coffee & Brooklyn (C&B), and the latest Notable New Yorker interview, Ivan Brandon: Crime Comics Czar. Log on now to check out new poetry,
Support the Striking Writers
There’s a great website called fans4writers.com that is trying to organize support for the members of the Writers Guild of America who went on strike this past Monday after negotiations over royalties for usage of their creations in new media vehicles — ie: re-playing TV episodes and streaming movies online, the sale of digital copies of TV episodes, etc. Philosophically speaking,
Hell, no!
Amd_frontpage11_06 Not just no, but “HELL, NO!“ “As I’ve said before, he’s one of the free agents in the market, and we’re looking at all free agents,” Minaya said about A-Rod, whose private plane flew from Miami to the Bahamas on Sunday… Minaya continues to reaffirm his pleasure with David Wright and Jose Reyes, but
Vox Hunt: Tick Tock
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Belated Jack-O-Lantern
Jack-O-Lantern 2007 Isaac and I finally got around to carving the pumpkin he picked a few weeks ago during India’s birthday picnic party, using a cheapo carving kit we bought that included templates. He picked one of the more difficult choices but I was up for the challenge since it was the first time we were
Damn Yankees!
Over on Facebook last week, I posed a question — “If you could make me write a poem, what would it be about?” — and got some interesting responses that I’ve been letting marinate in the hopes that one of them would break through my current case of writer’s block. Yesterday, determined to read something new at
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I. In 1978, my daily commute on the D trainfrom the not-quite-South Bronx of 170th Streetto the not-yet-Upper West Side of 96th, found me surrounded by men andwomen in suits with blue collars. I woke up 90 minutes earlierthan my friends and would oftenfall asleep on a stranger’s shoulder,startle awake, embarrassedbut unmolested. Contrary to popular
An Upcoming Gig!
November3rdClub The November 3rd Club ReadingSaturday, November 3rdThe Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery, New York, NY 100126 to 8 p.m.; Admission: $7 Victor D. Infante hosts a night of readers from the The November 3rd Club, including Tony Brown, Jane Cassady, Brian Dauth, Lea Deschenes, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Gary Hoare, Lynne Procope, Skip Shea, Jackie Sheeler,
QotD: World Series 2007
What are your predictions for the World Series? While I’d like to see the Colorado Rockies over the Boston Red Sox in 5, so they can win it at home, I think it will likely go 6 or 7, but the upstart Rocks will ultimately pull out the victory. Scheduling nonsense aside — 8:23 pm games in