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Alligators in the Sewers
Gotham city has often been the venue of choice for urban legends and conspiracy theories whether it is about mob operations or strange tunnel inhabitants. The state across the river, on the other hand, seldom inspires the imagination. But New Jersey poets have won three Pulitzers in the past four years. Does the Garden State wax poetic?
The Poetry-Garden State
Sander Zulauf, writing professor at County College of Morris and editor of the Journal of New Jersey Poets and Paul Muldoon, professor of Humanities at Princeton University and 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner for his book of poetry, Moy Sand and Gravel (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2002), discuss the large number of award-winning, and unsung, poets of New Jersey
Alligators in the Sewer
Sunny Lee, features writer for the Daily News, on popular legends of New York City
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