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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Five): Justin Jamail [by Angela Ball]
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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Terry Riley [by Lewis Saul]
Gawd, I detest fit-me-into-a-shoebox musical terminology. Baroque. If it's not baroque, don't fix it. Classical. Classical music. But from 1750-1830, when forms such as the symphony, concerto and sonata were developed, someone decided it…
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Terry Riley [by Lewis Saul]
Gawd, I detest fit-me-into-a-shoebox musical terminology. Baroque. If it's not baroque, don't fix it. Classical. Classical music. But from 1750-1830, when forms such as the symphony, concerto and sonata were developed, someone decided it…
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Who’s Who on A. R. Ammons’s “Shit List” [by David Barber]
David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for…
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Old Nellie and the Big Spiders [by Mitch Sisskind]
Old Nellie and the Big Spiders After 4 July how quickly summer goes until Toward the end the big spiders come whom I love but more than love respect them for The web astonishments…
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A Man of Many Words, and Every One Mattered: Robert A. Gottlieb (1931-2023) [by Mindy Aloff]
Note: This is part two of a two-part essay on the late Robert Gottlieb (pictured left with his auithor Robert Caro). Part one appeared last Saturday July 1. Bob could read a booklength manuscript…
