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Life-affirming poetry from folklorist Steve Zeitlin, writer, poet, songwriter, ping pong player, cultural activist and Founding Director of City Lore, New York's center for urban folk culture now celebrating its 40th anniversary. ""Whitman may contain multitudes, but only Zeitlin puts on his poet's outfit every morning and says he's wearing the universe,"" writes Bob Holman, poet and producer of The United States of Poetry. ""That's uni (one) plus verse (poem), which sums up his philosophy - life is nothing but one big ol' poem that everybody just keeps on writing. The emperor may have no clothes but remember - the poet is wearing the universe.""

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Steve Zeitlin is a folklorist, writer, poet, songwriter, ping pong player, and cultural activist. Steve is the Founding Director of City Lore, New York's center for urban folk culture, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. City Lore works with grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories, places and traditions. In 2002, Steve co-founded the Brevitas poetry collective, dedicated to the short poem. In 2007, he received the Benjamin Botkin Award from the American Folklore Society for lifetime achievement in public folklore. Steve Zeitlin has served as a regular commentator for a number of nationally syndicated public radio shows, and his commentaries have appeared on the Op Ed pages of The New York Times and Newsday.

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