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“Our Drone Future” a Short Film from Alex Cornell

By On March 13, 2014

"Our Drone Future explores the technology, capability, and purpose of drones, as their presence becomes an increasingly pervasive reality in the skies of tomorrow. In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones… Read More

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Get Ready to Scroll Through a Scale Model of the Solar System

By On March 10, 2014

Click on the box below to visit the site and take off through our solar system. Fun!… Read More

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“LOT254” a Short Horror Film by Toby Meakins

By On March 10, 2014

"A Collector repairs a vintage cine camera unlocking the hidden terror of LOT254."… Read More

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E-Verse Equinox Returns to Ring in the Spring with Poets Sarah Arvio, Jenn McCreary, and Harry Robert Stoneback

By On March 7, 2014

Sarah Arvio, author of Night Thoughts (2013), with Jenn McCreary, author of & Now My Feet Are Maps (2013), and H.R. Stoneback, author of Hurricane Hymn (2009), hosted by Ernest Hilbert. Open… Read More

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Scared of Heights? These Guys Aren’t

By On March 4, 2014

Get your vertigo on. … Read More

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“Boccherini In the Afternoon” by Mark Schorr

By On March 3, 2014

Mark Schorr's books include "Conscious Explanations" (Pen & Anvil); "Heart's Ladder", a collection of forty sonnets; the book-length renga sequence "Recovery: 77 Dream Songs"; "One On A Side: An Evening with Seamus… Read More

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Five Poems from the “Haunted Forest” Sequence by Jenn McCreary

By On March 1, 2014

Jenn McCreary’s new full-length collection, & now my feet are maps, is now available from Dusie Press. Other works include The Dark Mouth of Living (Horse Less Press), :ab ovo: (Dusie Press),… Read More

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Imagine if Lions Jumped on You the Way Your Housecats Do

By On February 27, 2014

Kevin Richardson, lion conservation expert, plays with some lions as if they're house cats. It's partly frightening, partly endearing; scary and cute in equal measures. It's presented as part of an ad… Read More

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“Outside Death Spiral: On Watching the Favorite TV Programs of a Lost Loved One” by H.R. Stoneback

By On February 26, 2014

H. R. Stoneback (BA Rutgers-Camden 1965; PhD Vanderbilt 1970) is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York (New Paltz). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the… Read More

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“The Swan at Edgewater Park” by Ruth L. Schwartz

By On February 25, 2014

"Ruth L. Schwartz's poems are passionate and compassionate engagements with the sensuous richness that is this living world. Her empathy reaches broadly into every terrain and being, enlarging our understanding of the… Read More

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“The Early Ones” by William Stafford

By On February 22, 2014

“William Stafford’s quiet presence in the landscape of American poetry in my lifetime has been a kind of continuing reassurance.” —W. S. Merwin… Read More

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It’s Friday, So Here’s a Local Philly Cat Playing Piano with a Full Orchestra

By On February 21, 2014

Because you need to see this too. And you're welcome. … Read More

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“Gravelly Run” by A.R. Ammons

By On February 20, 2014

[T]he most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems. - Harold Bloom on Ammons' collected poems. … Read More

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Anna Calvi Absolutely Kills Us with Three Songs on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert

By On February 19, 2014

Three songs from her self-titled debut, "River To The Sea," "Surrender," and "Jezebel."… Read More

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“Godzilla Agonistes” by Christopher Bullard

By On February 19, 2014

Chris Bullard is a native of Jacksonville, FL. He lives in Collingswood, NJ, and works for the federal government as an Administrative Law Judge. He received his BA from the University of… Read More

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Concert Poster for the New Opera The Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of Marco Polo by Stella Sung with Libretto by Ernest Hilbert

By On February 18, 2014

The production team just sent the official poster for the new opera The Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of Marco Polo by Stella Sung. … Read More

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“The Peacock at Alderton” by Geoffrey Hill

By On February 17, 2014

Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than… Read More

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“Song” by Ted Hughes

By On February 14, 2014

“What happens in the heart, simply happens.” - Ted Hughes… Read More

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“Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere” by Maggie Estep on MTV’s Unplugged

By On February 13, 2014

Maggie Estep "passed away of complications February 12, 2014, after suffering cardiac arrest February 9th, 2014."… Read More

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“I Took Some Weapons” by Andrew Goodspeed

By On February 13, 2014

Andrew Goodspeed was born in New York City. He was educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently the Provost of South East European University, Tetovo,… Read More

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“I’m Not Neurasthenic About the Lights”: An Evening of Poetry with Robert Lowell: Classic Black and White Television Broadcast

By On February 12, 2014

"Robert Lowell was one of the three or four greatest American poets of the twentieth century . . . his real peers are the classics of American literature: Melville and Whitman, Eliot… Read More

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“Ice” by Robert Lowell

By On February 12, 2014

"angrily we skate on blacker ice . . ."… Read More

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“The Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith

By On February 11, 2014

"Reading Oliver Goldsmith's poem of 1770, The Deserted Village, today is dizzying. Goldsmith paints a picture of ruin resulting from the accumulation of wealth in a few hands: desolation and dispossession or… Read More

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“Daylilies” by Teresa Leo

By On February 10, 2014

Teresa Leo is the author of two books of poetry, Bloom in Reverse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) and The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editors’ Prize.… Read More

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“X” by Christine Yurick

By On February 10, 2014

Christine Yurick’s poems have appeared in Barbaric Yawp, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Autumn Sky, and are forthcoming in American Arts Quarterly and Angle. She is the founding editor of Think Journal and is… Read More

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Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road on The Steve Allen Show in 1959

By On February 9, 2014

“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that… Read More

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“Actors” by Terese Coe

By On February 7, 2014

Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Review, The TLS, The Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Poetry, Ploughshares, Agenda, Tar River Poetry, Smartish Pace, New Walk Magazine,… Read More

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“At the Fish Market” by Zachary Bos

By On February 6, 2014

Boston poet and critic Zachary Bos has appeared in Basilica Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Herald, Free Verse, Fulcrum, Literary Imagination, Moria, Psychic Meatloaf, Sanctuary, Spare Change News, the bleed, The Christian… Read More

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“Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks

By On February 5, 2014

Since we're pelted yet again with icy rain on the east coast, I think Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun" is in order. As a boy, I loved this song and was… Read More

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“Mother Worries” by Shane Allison

By On February 3, 2014

Shane Allison's poems and stories have appeared in juked, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Oyster Boy Review, Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts, Plum Ruby Review, Saints and Sinners, and Wild and Willing.… Read More