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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 8, 2023

    March 8, 2023

    For today’s post, I offer you two stunning epistolary poems—Matthew Olzmann’s and David Hernandez’s poems seem to sing to one another: Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now Most likely, you think we…

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  • Wednesday [by Mark Ford]

    March 8, 2023

    It was announced on the radio this morning [Wednesday, October 15, 2008] that the British Library has paid half a million pounds for a collection of the manuscripts of Ted Hughes. Hughes was a…

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  • Were it given to all to see into the heart of each! Pierre Pontvianne’s Motifs [By Tracy Danison]

    March 7, 2023

    Partner dance, the true illusion of being together. "Motifs" by Pierre Pontivianne. Photo © Lena Pinon Lang Motif usually means “intention or motive”. For Pierre Pontvianne, I think, the word carries the connotation as…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Five) Matthew Yeager [by Angela Ball]

    March 7, 2023

    The Ongoing Lamentationof Anna Nicole Smith “You have a beautiful face Mr. Gray. Don’t frown.” – Wilde ….Right now, for instance, there’s my terrycloth robe, the walls, the curtains, the carpet, my slippers, and…

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  • Two Mozart Piano Concertos [by Lewis Saul]

    March 7, 2023

    1. Mozart Piano Concerto #3 in D Major, K. 40 (1767)Murray Perahia, piano/cond.English Chamber Orchestra   At the age of 11, Mozart learned to write piano concerti by taking examples of earlier music —…

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  • Leah Umansky: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 5, 2023

                                    ______________________________________________________ In My Next Life, I Want to Be an Ad Man   I want to be donned…

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