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The New York School Diaspora (Part Seventeen): Hannah Dow [by Angela Ball]
Another Summer Without Classical Music I haven’t lived in Southern California very long but every summer that I do it occurs to meonly after the summer has endedthat I should go see “Mozart Under…
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Reginald Dwayne Betts: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Reginald Dwayne Betts. Photo by Mamadi Doumbouya ______________________________________________________________ Blood History…
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“Stick” [by James Cummins]
It was intra-squad, not a real game,But teenage boys don’t know the difference;And to the pitcher who’d just thrownAn adrenaline-powered fastball at my head,I was a pretender he could intimidate.When the next pitch nearly…
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Three Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Hold Onto Your Hat We learned how if the ship goes down you Can make a life-preserver of your shirt By taking it off and slamming it down onto The water with…
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The Last Word on Napoleon [by David Lehman]
The last word on Napoleon has not been written. More than 600,000 books have been published about the military genius who crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 and united the rest of Europe in…
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On Kenneth Koch, “Dr. Fun” [by Melanie Rehak]
"May I tell you how much I love your poems?" Frank O'Hara crowed in the first stanza of a tribute to his friend Kenneth Koch in 1953. "It's as if a great pipeline had…
