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“With the exception of rap, which has a mass audience, poetry
“With the exception of rap, which has a mass audience, poetry has moved from the category of a minor art to a craft. In the course of numerous readi...

“Up to this point, the American revolt has been a stupendous
“Up to this point, the American revolt has been a stupendous thing, the thing I admire most in the world today. But in essence it has always remaine...

“Sometime in 2011, I think, the Texas School Board made the
“Sometime in 2011, I think, the Texas School Board made the decision to edit school history books in order to specifically reflect the beliefs and s...

“With the stamps and the other things, we are honoring Dr. King
“With the stamps and the other things, we are honoring Dr. King on the cheap. Give him a monument, give him a holiday, but we dont want to deal with...

The Blessed Ones You who have gathered to shame me into
The Blessed Ones You who have gathered to shame me into silence, to relegate my love of words into indifferent trash, you who believe you have the r...

THERE ARE TWO Chinese proverbs often used for contrast. “It’s
THERE ARE TWO Chinese proverbs often used for contrast. “It’s common to add florid embroidery to the brocade.” “It’s rare to send over a car...

When Sy Johnson, a jazz pianist and arranger, used to visit
When Sy Johnson, a jazz pianist and arranger, used to visit Charles Mingus at his apartment in the East Village in the 1960s, there was always a pot o...

Brian Jay Jones has given us an intensely warm and engaging
Brian Jay Jones has given us an intensely warm and engaging biography of a man who pushed all kinds of boundaries in the entertainment industry and ha...