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N. H. PRITCHARD: "Born in New York City on October 22,

1939, N. H. Pritchard prepared at The Cathedral Choir School of St. John the Divine and St. Peter's School (Jacob's Hill) be­fore receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Art History from Washington Square College, New York Univer­sity. While attending college, he was a contributor to the liter­ary magazine and President of the Fine Arts Society. Mr. Pritch­ard pursued graduate studies in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts and Columbia University. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, among them: Poetry Northwest, Lib­erator, Eye Magazine, Umbra, the East Village Other, as well as in several anthologies. He has given readings of his poems at many institutions, including International House, Sarah Law­rence College, The Poetry Society of America, Lafayette Col­lege, and Barnard College. He has read his poems on the record albums Destinations: Four Contemporary American Poets and New Jazz Poets. Mr. Pritchard is currently teaching a poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research and is Poet­in-Residence at Friends Seminary."

"Words are ancillary to content"

Lennox Raphael

Mike 6)

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Once up u hurl a stone thru the window

But coming up the musulmanos laugh thru cactus corners

while Mike 65 looks down on sea sun and stones

and falls upon the city where the cactii are hungry and mosquitoes full

but coming up the musulmanos laugh and Mike 65 looks down on the city

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for the loin is where the head is rested in peace

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