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Erika Dreifus
Staff
The University
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AUGUST 7, 1974
I am five years old. Each morning a yellow van stops in front of our south Brooklyn apartment building. On the ride over to my summer camp
in Manhattan Beach...
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The University
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On the seventh anniversary of the 911 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, students from The City University of New York stood side by side with family and friends of those who perished...
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Estha Weiner
Faculty
City College
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Finally, some sun
from my fire escape
terrace- I look out
on another roof-
astro-turfed, lounge-chaired,
picnic-tabled, planted-
see the sculptor...
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Tom Sleigh
Faculty
Hunter College
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1/Omen
What was going on in the New York American
Black/red/green helmeted neon night?
The elevator door was closing behind us, we were the ones...
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Linsey Abrams
Faculty
City College |
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Living in New York, you think you’ve seen everything.
Not that 14th Street, your street, had seemed a likely
frontier. You knew global warming was going to flood...
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John Reid Currie
Student
Queens College
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8:09:15 A.M.
our other argument explodes riding the train
whispering like coal, our quiet descent
Manhattan today, I get the F downtown...
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L.S. Asekoff
Faculty
Brooklyn College |
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In the Dream of Almost-Perfect-Peace
You wave out the window to your enemy
Who looks up from his cup of coffee, the blue flicker
of morning news...
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Ann Rosenthal
Student
Queens College
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From my office window I saw this guy in a blue suit walk out of one of the dark clouds. He looked like he just got off the elevator and found himself on the wrong floor. Then he disappeared into the sky...
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Nicole Cooley
Faculty
Queens College |
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Like the magic porridge that takes
over the town, pours through the village,
fills, then empties, the streets...
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Kimiko Hahn
Faculty
Queens College |
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Overtaking the crisp air, from across the Bay blow pages of documents and
ashes of terror...
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Meena Alexander
Faculty
Graduate Center/
Hunter College |
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Aftermath
There is an uncommon light in the sky
Pale petals are scored into stone.
I want to write of the linden tree
That stoops at the edge of the river...
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Kim
Santoiemma
Alumna
Lehman College |
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I have come to realize
that events occur without warning.
Circumstances transpire with consequences that we are unaware
of...
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Maria
Terrone
Staff
Queens College |
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I. August 21, 2001
A week after the silent attack
beneath the maple tree, the sidewalk stain...
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Karen
Beatty
Faculty
John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
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I left for work a
few minutes after 9 am, fully appreciative of the blue skies
and unusually warm sunshine for a mid September day in New
York City...
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W.
H. Gallagher
Staff,
School of Education
Brooklyn College |
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A heart that is broken
is also open. There is no “closure” when life is undone...
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