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Wm Logan on Frank O’Hara
Re: "Death is often a good career move in poetry" (the first sentence of William Logan's review of Frank O'Hara's Selected) as if FOH committed suicidewhen all he did was watch the tide drunk as…
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Herb Engelhardt invents the haiku
Greasy Spoon I watched the ownerpocket a two-dollar tipleft for a waitress. And I felt sorryfor the guy, knew he would diehated by his kids. — Herbert Engelhardt (1925-2021) Herbert Engelhardt was born in…
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Festival Signes d’Automne 2022 at the Belleville Swan # 2: Off-the-cuff creativity and new perspectives from Korea [by Tracy Danison]
Shadows and robots from “Homo Lupiens” by Kyung Shin Kim, produced for “Festival S.O.U.M. – Soirée de co-création Franco-Coréenne,” 2022, Regard du Cygne. Photo © Timothée Shin Off-the-cuff cooperative creativity and fresh consideration of…
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Some Cinematic Suggestions [by David Lehman]
For The American Scholar, I've posted short essays on the movies I've listed here. Here are links to, and brief excerpts from, the articles. To this post, which first appeared on March 27, 2020,…
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An elephant speaks to tourists in a safari vehicle (by Mitch Sisskind)
Would you please not take pictures of me? Thank you. I'm asking nicely.Some elephants enjoy the spotlightBut to my ears, oh God, those clicking Cellphone cameras! (some trumpeting)Also, please do not whisper or laughAbout…
