Breaking Mima-news! Word from: Jake

The best bit of news of the day: the first two copies of Mimaamakim 2005 have arrived. Chaim says, they're beautiful. I'm sure it's true and I'll see them myself this shabbat. Congrats to all on hard-hard work! We'll celebrate officially on Nov 6th at Cornelia St Cafe, and unofficial rites will be held all over Washington Heights starting next week.

Corrie Feiner who we're proudly publishing in this upcoming issue, is doing a show at Makor on Thursday. It's a poetry perfomance celebrating Rambam - how cool is that?

Lilit and I saw Harold Bloom at NYPL yesterday. He spoke about Walt Whitman. One idea he mentioned was that even though seemingly, Whitman is constantly talking about himself, it's all cosmic global stuff: his personal voice is very elusive. Also, (you should all know!) Whitman's poetry is not homo-erotic. It has a lot more to do with auto-gratification. His proof of this centered mainly on the peculiar usage of the word "twig."