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“How distressing must it be for someone to be in urgent need, in pain and sometimes lonely, only to be told not to ring back?"

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Steven Statsinger told John Price his fate during a brief sentencing as victim Joyce Williams’ family sat in the gallery.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on May 1 that Jerry Lewis was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned on a charge of murder in the second degree for the 1992 death of 15-year-old Nadine Slade, who was found naked and strangled with her own bra in her Far Rockaway home. “Any mother’s worst

John Wieners was one of the most important gay poets of his generation, but subsequent decades have seen him all but forgotten. A new collection of his letters vividly returns him to readers.

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, grocery bags of champagne lined the walls—replaced, ...