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  • A Talk with Friedrich Nietzsche [by Adam Zagajewski]

    July 13, 2023

    Most highly respected Professor Nietzsche,sometimes I seem to see youon a sanatorium terrace at dawnwith fog descending and song burstingthe throats of the birds. Not tall, head like a bullet,you compose a new bookand…

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  • “30.11.12” by Ken Bolton [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    July 12, 2023

    Since the 1970s, Ken Bolton has summoned the spirit of the New York School in his life and poetry: erudite, conversational, playful, modern (as he writes in “Horizon”: “I never wanted to be postcolonial…

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  • “30.11.12” by Ken Bolton [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    July 12, 2023

    Since the 1970s, Ken Bolton has summoned the spirit of the New York School in his life and poetry: erudite, conversational, playful, modern (as he writes in “Horizon”: “I never wanted to be postcolonial…

    Continue reading…

  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: July 12, 2023

    July 12, 2023

    For today’s post, I offer Gregg Shapiro’s wry look at home ownership with the pesky problem of unwanted guests. The poem first appeared in CONFETTI. https://confettimag.org/home/ Year of the Rat Seven year itch. Seven…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: July 12, 2023

    July 12, 2023

    For today’s post, I offer Gregg Shapiro’s wry look at home ownership with the pesky problem of unwanted guests. The poem first appeared in CONFETTI. https://confettimag.org/home/ Year of the Rat Seven year itch. Seven…

    Continue reading…

  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Five): Justin Jamail [by Angela Ball]

    July 11, 2023

    Early April Subway Again room fills up like leaf guttersWith attractive grouplets of the stubbornlyCoy and then everyone waits togetherLike the pleasing skinny S-shapedTrees that fill my enemy’s back yard,A place of wet thoughts…

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