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The Poetry of Everyday Life
Steve Zeitlin

Folklore’s Four Sisters

We invite you to check out Steve’s new Poetry of Everyday Life blogpost, Folklore’s Four Sisters: Scholarship, Fieldwork, Activism and Artistry. In it he discusses – for those of you who have wondered – just exactly what a folklorist does, and explains this visualization.

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Grassroots Poetry
Caitlin Van Dusen

THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER

Looking Back at the Corona Virus Ten Thousand Years from Now by Kewulay KamaraPoetry of Everyday LifeBlogpost #17 IntroYou don’t even know what you know till

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Grassroots Poetry
Steve Zeitlin

Corporate Candy

Ungentrified Sweets in a Gentrified City The Poetry of Everyday Life, blogpost 13 By Molly Garfinkel and Steve Zeitlin In the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Travis

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Grassroots Poetry
Steve Zeitlin

Spring Burial

The Legend of the Service Tree Poetry of Everyday Life Blogpost #9   “We grew up thinking that if there wasn’t pavement under our feet,

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The Poetry of Everyday Life
Steve Zeitlin

Is Brooklyn J’Ouvert Dead?

Following weeks of debate over new security measures aimed at curbing violence, Brooklyn’s much scrutinized 2017 J’Ouvert celebration thankfully took place without incident. But New Yorkers might have missed this news amidst the plethora of media stories incorrectly attributing criminal activity to the event.

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