Day: January 12, 2002

Remembering Jack Micheline

I met the poet Jack Micheline in 1970 in New York City at Dr Generosity’s, a saloon at 73rd and Second on the East Side. I waited tables there and helped run a Sunday afternoon reading series and was editor and publisher of the Dr Generosity Press, which from 1969 … Read the rest

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The Youth and Death of Mira Lohvitskaya

Mira Lohvitskaya (1869 – 1905) was unfortunately overshadowed by the great number of other Russian female poets of the twentieth century even though in the beginning of the last century her poetry was considered among the best in the genre of “female poetry”. The critics nicknamed her “the Russian Sappho” … Read the rest

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