Poetry Monday: Merridawn Duckler

POETRY MONDAY:  May 1, 2016

                                                     

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 Merridawn Duckler

Was there ever a poet with a name more perfect for spring?

If you haven’t heard of Merridawn Duckler before, it’s because you may have been following only one art form.  Her poems have appeared and are forthcoming in poetry journals such as Naugatuck River Review, Cirque Journal, Fifth Wednesday and many others. Her recent fiction has been published in Farallon Review and Poetica.  Her play in verse was in the Emerging Female Playwright Festival of the Manhattan Shakespeare Project, and other plays Continue reading Poetry Monday: Merridawn Duckler

The 10 best screen psychoanalysts

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Click Here to Read:  The 10 best screen psychoanalysts: From Hannibal Lecter to Frasier Crane, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose chooses her 10 favourite celluloid shrinks by Anouchka Grose on the Guardian website on June 12, 2010.

Lorraine Bracco as Dr Melfi with James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature

Duke Ellington’s Birthday: April 29, 1899

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Click Here to Read: Duke Ellington on Wiipedia.

Click Here to Read and Listen to: Duke Ellington on the Bio.website.

Click Here to Read: Big Band: ‘Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington,’ by Terry Teachout , Reviewed By James Gavin in The New York Times on December 6, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Two Bands: Duke Ellington, the Beatles, and the mysteries of modern creativity BY Aadam Gopnik in the New Yorker Magazine in the December 23 & 30, 2013 Issue. Continue reading Duke Ellington’s Birthday: April 29, 1899