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Pete Seeger
May 3, 1919-January 27, 2014
World citizen/
National treasure/
Musical artist
your voice/music Continue reading Pete Seeger May 3, 1919-January 27, 2014 by Herbert Weiner
Click Here to a Read: Biographical Note on Mali Mann
“When you come back, bring your potted flowers”
Mali Mann
Your potted flowers on the porch whisper in the air;
if you come back, your flowers greet me at the door,
your paintings on the wall.
Speak to me of living days. Continue reading Poem by Mali Mann
Juditha Dowd
Happy New Year, everyone!
Our first poet of 2014, Juditha Dowd, grew up in Caldwell, New Jersey, and on the Jersey shore and wrote her first poem when she was eight years old, in third grade. She never stopped, but didn’t pursue publishing until many years later, after her children were grown. In her working life, she had many different careers- everything from advertising (in the Mad Men era) to designing Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2014
Click Here to Read: After a Death, Keeping a Yiddish-Lover’s Weekly Conversations Alive By Winnie Hu in The New York Times on January 1, 2014,
Music Treasures of the American Yiddish Theater: Interview with Matt Temkin
On Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3:00 pm, YIVO will celebrate the work of the most popular composers from the golden age of Yiddish American theater, otherwise known as the “big four of Second Avenue”: Abraham Ellstein, Alexander Olshanetsky, Sholom Continue reading Yedies fun YIVO / YIVO NEWS
Colette Inez has published ten books of poetry and received Guggenheim, Rockefeller and two NEA fellowships and Pushcart prizes. She is widely anthologized and taught at Columbia University for many years. Her shocking, beautiful and heartbreaking memoir of long-held secrets and a child’s resilience, The Secret of M. Dulong, (University of Wisconsin Press) appeared in 2005. A new collection, The Luba Poems, will be published late next year by Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: December 2, 2013 Colette Inez
