Poor Andy Rooney!

-Ronald Charles Epstein

April 9, 2011

Andrew A. Rooney,
60 MINUTES' commentator,
visited Israel.
He sampled its cuisine
and found it wanting.

Poor Andy Rooney!
This man of New York,
a land of great delis,
expected Tel Aviv's streets
to be paved with pastrami.

Ronald Charles Epstein writes poetry and review books in Toronto, Canada, where he has made his home since 1959. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 and has published poetry since 1982. Past credits include HARVARD REVIEW, TEXAS REVIEW, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY. He has also read poetry in Toronto, Orillia and Vaughan.

Welcome to the New Vilna Review

*A Note From the Publisher - February 8, 2012*

Dear readers and contributors,

The New Vilna Review has been going through some changes the past few

months, and our focus has shifted to offering an expanded selection of

poetry, fiction and arts writing. We are once again accepting submissions,

and look forward to continuing to publish some of the most interesting and

thought provoking work in the world of Jewish arts and letters.

-Daniel E. Levenson

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

The New Vilna Review

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