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Dorothy Parker's New York

Among my favorite surprises is taking in the mail and discovering someone sent me a book out of the blue. The other day it was a review copy of Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin Fitzpatrick, which is now in its third edition. I’m pretty sure it was the only book of Fitzpatrick’s I didn’t already own, so it was especially welcome. As you may know, among many other things, Kevin is the founder and…

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World War One New York (The Book)

I was unprepared for how much I would love Kevin Fitzpatrick’s latest guidebook World War I: A Guide to the City’s Enduing Ties to the Great War. I shouldn’t have been; I love all his books. He finds surprising holes in the publishing universe and fills them. The surprise is always, “There isn’t already a book about that?” Well, now there is! Just as his recent Governor’s Island book is now…

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The Governor's Island Explorer's Guide

A thought occurred to me the other day: New York is such a large, complex and amazing city that events that would be earth-shaking anywhere lese can go relatively unnoticed here. Case in point: over the past decade or so, New York has seen the creation of a new public park/ tourist destination every bit as eye opening, rewarding and enjoyable as Central Park, Prospect Park, or Ellis Island. I try…

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A poem by Kevin FitzPatrick

BLACKBERRIES

I choose "Blackberry-Picking" to read to Tina, a poem by Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney. I want to support her, show her I accept her moving back to the country after years of living in the city with me. As in Heaney's poem, she too has blackberries growing wild along the borders of her fields.

But as I read to her how the poet uses milk cans, pea tins, jam pots to drop his picked berries in, she interrupts, "Milk cans are too big - he'll crush them. He needs berry boxes."

I smile and continue to read until the poet unloads his berries in a bath and bemoans a fungus that sets in year after year to foul the treasure he's picked. "I wouldn't wash wild berries," Tina says. "I'd freeze them or put them up right away. Pick off any insects or thorns, then freeze them or put them up - make jams, jellies, pies, juice, wine - they'll rot if you don't."

I don't know who to freeze or put up: Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney, whose poetry I love and admire, or Tina, who I also love and admire and who's a three-time Mille Lacs area 4-H grand canning champion.

Kevin FitzPatrick (1950-2021)

Frank Hudson's post on this poem includes a performance.

Kevin FitzPatrick website.

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Dorothy Parker Comes Home to Rest We've never been so proud of our pal Kevin Fitzpatrick, Founder of Marxfest and The Dorothy Parker Society,

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Pierce Brosnan to star in 'The Last Rifleman' | English Movie News

Pierce Brosnan to star in ‘The Last Rifleman’ | English Movie News

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Actor Pierce Brosnan is all set to star in Terry Loane’s next directorial project ‘The Last Rifleman’.

According to a report, the forthcoming movie revolves around the story of a World War II veteran living in a care home in Northern Ireland.

The story is inspired by World War II veteran Bernard Jordan who, at the age of 89, escaped his care home in East Sussex, boarded a bus to…

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Pie Eyed by @PieEaterKev #Poetry By Kevin Fitzpatrick AKA @PieEaterKev via Twitter “I’m just off to the pie shop I’ll only have the one”

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Where exactly is the North?

Where exactly is the North? by Kevin Fitzpatrick #Poetry #TheNorth

Kevin Fitzpatrick via email

Where exactly is The North? Just how South does it go? Coz ministers responsible Admit that they don’t know

Is it where they dug for coal, Wove cotton or built ships? Or is it where they always ask For gravy on their chips?

Is it where they don T-shirts While through the snow they crunch? Or is it where dinner’s called tea Coz dinner is their lunch?

Is it where their…

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