Four Poems by Peter Cole

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It occurred to me halfway through listening to Elizabeth Alexander’s narcoleptic and thoroughly "bureaucratic" verse,…

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While browsing the New York Times online this morning over coffee, I noticed an interesting…

Jewcy Zeitgeist: Caroline Kennedy Withdraws From Senate Race, Obama to Close Guantanamo, and Microsoft Layoffs

Here are today’s top stories in no particular order: The Palestinian Center for Human Rights…

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Languor is picking her wedgy in a lusty daze, glancing slowly down at us through…

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