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Really?
Elevator Contestant Doubles Down
By: - Dec 19th, 2014A contestant in our Elevator Poem contest, the artist/ illustrator Robert Rendo, has his eyes on the prize. On these nights before Christmas he dreams of Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds.
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Elevators Elevate Enlightenment
Broad Benefits Uplifting
By: - Dec 18th, 2014Our friend Chris Busa is the publisher of Provinctown Arts Magazine which also promotes annd publishes books of piterature, criticism and poetry. This is his submission to our Elevator poem contest.
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Stairway to Heaven
High Above Manhattan
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Provoked by a prohibition from Jonas another poem inspired by elevators. In this case childhood memories of visiting the Empire State Building. Then the tallest building in the world. A true wonder. Never went back. Fear of flying.
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26th Floor
A Gibson
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Our New York correspondent, Susan Hall, recalls a celebrity encounter on, you guessed it, an elevator.
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Elevated Interaction
Hitting on Critics in Elevators
By: - Dec 17th, 2014My eccentric atrtist friend, Raeford Liles, now 91, God bless him, spotted the famous critic Harold Rosenberg. You guessed it. In an elevator.
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The Doors Parted
Biblical Elevation
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The artist illustrator Robert Rendo wades in with a Biblical spin on the elevator contest.
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Girth and Mirth
Elevating the Holidays
By: - Dec 17th, 2014Colleague and critic Larry Murray has elevating lines on the challenges of Jonas's ban on writing about elevators.
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December
Bah Humbug
By: - Dec 16th, 2014After the pearls, perfumes, Irish sweaters finding presents in the twentieth year of being together gets tough. This time a Ninja Juicer. As Fast Eddie would say, "A life changing experience." All that good cheer and ubiquitous Christmas music is driving me nuts. My friend Jonas says "You can't write a poem about an elevator." Here I attempt to prove him wrong.
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Life in the Lift
Another Poem About Elevators
By: - Dec 16th, 2014My friend Jonas warned/ challenged me that you just can't possibly write a poem about an elevator. With December I tried to prove him wrong. Now the poet laureate of Martha's Vinyard, Arnie Reisman, has sent along a poem inspired by an elevator. So take that Jonas. It seems that life for poets has its ups and downs. With a nod to Cole Porter's Miss Otis Regrets.
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The Elevator
More on the Ups and Downs of Poetry
By: - Dec 16th, 2014In response to the prohibition of my friend Jonas regarding the folly of writing poems about elevators many are responding to the call to arms. There is now an "official " contest for poems about elevators. Our artist friend from Sheffield, Benno Friedman, wades in. The winner will be awarded a free subscription to Berkshire Fine Arts and lunch at a choice of Burger King, Wendy's or McDonald's.
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Interview in a Highrise
Another Elevator Poem
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The artist/ musician/ poet Jane Hudson of Williamstown has entered our Elevator Contest. Here the rise to the top is more fluid than the long way down.
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Elevator Poem Contest
The Artist Waxes Poetic
By: - Dec 16th, 2014The Berkshire based artist, and aficionado of Coffee Corner, Arhur Yanoff, has a different response to the Jonas constraints against writing poetry about elevators. He has his eyes on the prize.
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Hope, A Hiaku
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Skills
Unique Qualities of Native New Yorkers
By: - Dec 09th, 2014Having returned from another week in New York we reflect on the assets and limitations of those who live there.
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No Encores
Meeting Midnight Deadlines
By: - Dec 09th, 2014Back in the day critics for daily papers met midnight deadlines. Sometimes there were a few of us in the office covering theatre and concerts. It was challening and exciting to get it right in one take. Too much time and thought just messes it up.
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Honeymoon
Weekend in the Catskills
By: - Nov 30th, 2014He was so arrogant she couldn't stand him. Or his advances. Relented to assist him on a home delivery. First date. Married a couple of weeks later. On one condition. That eventually they would move to Boston to be with her family. It was a hard bargain.
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Freshman English
Birth of Gonzo
By: - Nov 28th, 2014In Camus' The Stranger for no compelling reason he killed the Arab on the beach. The story is told in deadpan prose with no affect. That inspired my freshman essay My Gradfather's Funeral. In so many ways it was proto Gonzo. That putz Arnie Sugarman gave me a C Plus.
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I Phone
Ap to Talk to God
By: - Nov 28th, 2014As a reporter I got an advance copy of an experimental I Phone. There are terrific new aps. One provides a direct line to Heaven. With questions about Creation I called God.
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Mad As Hell
Ferguson Our My Lai
By: - Nov 28th, 2014Our My Lai Massacre is Ferguson, LA, Chicago, Detroit. Anywhere that black life is less valued and whites run the game. When does it become too late?
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Casatta
Sicilian Holiday Cake
By: - Nov 28th, 2014When realtives traveled from Brooklyn for the holidays they brought the traditional holiday cake casatta. Intially it came from Tardo's. When it went out of business only Montelone's would do. You could tell the difference. This is something that only Sicilians can understand.
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The Game
Latin vs. English at Harvard Stadium
By: - Nov 27th, 2014My ambitions as a football player at Latin School ended on the first play. Lined up for a 'chicken test' I tackled the opponent but busted my collar bone. For the annual Thanksgiving game against rival English High I sat in the stands. But as events ensued didn't mind not being on the field.
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Thanksgiving 2014
White Christmas One Month Too Soon
By: - Nov 27th, 2014Worst ever Holiday rush hour. Whiteout on year's busiest travel day. Not going anywhere waking to winter wonderland a month early. Thanksgiving as the new White Christmas.
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Irish Wake
Grandpa Flynn Stiff in the Parlor
By: - Nov 27th, 2014But a lad raised like a prince too little time with Grandpa Flynn. In a true Boston Irish tradition they waked him in the parlor. A house full of mourners with tons of food and booze. Many perfect strangers. Funeral groupies making the rounds.
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Bang
When the Lights Go Out.
By: - Nov 25th, 2014Cosmic conversations over lunches with Bruce Duchomel and Larry Murray inspired these terse lines. While still expanding from the Big Bang seen another way the universe is finite. What happens when all the stars burn out and the universe goes dark?
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Tug of War
Ferguson the Day After
By: - Nov 25th, 2014The cop shot an unarmed black kid and walked. Scott free. Need for a change in the hearts and minds of America. Small powerful forces moving the ship of state.
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