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  • “Grafitti” [by Lisa Gorton]

    September 7, 2022

    Lisa Gorton is the former poetry editor of the Australian Book Review and the author of three award winning collections of poetry: Press Release, Hotel Hyperion, and Empirical, and the novel The Life of…

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  • B.girl, choreographer, member of the jury: Valentine Nagata-Ramos on evaluating Olympic break dance  

    September 6, 2022

    Daughter of a mother from Spain and a father from Japan, French breaker and contemporary performer and choreographer Valentine Nagata-Ramos grew up in the suburbs of Paris. Photo courtesy cie Uzumaki © Joël el Hadj…

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  • Krzysztof Kiešlowski: Three Colors Trilogy 

    September 6, 2022

    Krzysztof Kiešlowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on June 27, 1941. After two attempts and two rejections, he was finally admitted to the Łódź Film School on his third try. His first major success…

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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Four) The Fizz of the Theatrical: Mark Halliday and Martin Stannard [by Angela Ball]

    September 6, 2022

    THE BUCKET AND THE RAIN [Scene: a farmyard. It is raining cats and dogs. A metal bucket stands out in the rain, three yards from the barn.] The Bucket [muttering to himself]: Why did…

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  • F. R. Leavis on Keats: A Close Reading

    September 5, 2022

    <<<     Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,    Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,    Or on the wealth of globèd peonies…  The 'globèd' gives the sensation of the hand…

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  • Lewis Saul, Guest Author

    September 5, 2022

    This week we welcome back Lew Saul as a guest author.Lewis Saul is a composer from Tucson, Arizona.He studied with Nadia Boulanger and writes about music and film. Look for him in this space…

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