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FATIMAH ASGHAR, KRISTINA FAUST, AMA CODJOE, FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ: DISQUIET POETRY PRIZE WINNERS [by John Hennessy]
For the last four years at The Common we’ve been happy to partner with the DISQUIET International Literary Program, a two-week long conference bringing together writers from North America, Portugal, and throughout the Lusophone…
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Mark Tansey’s “Triumph of the New York School” [by David Lehman]
Mark Tansey is a definitively postmodernist painter. His pictures stand at two removes from nature; not art but art history (or art theory) is his subject. Tansey deals in theories and notions, presenting them…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty-Six [by Alec Bernstein]
“Faux tographe…” Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (detail), Leonardo da Vinci, Musée du Louvre, 1510. The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, Leonardo da Vinci, 1510. Trilby Clark from Movie Stars Exhibit…
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JOHN MURILLO: AN EYE ON KONTEMORARY AMERIKAN POETRY [by John Hennessy]
Today we turn to John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry as we continue looking at several books that came out early in the pandemic: “Well, there is the pandemic, certainly. But I believe this current…
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VIEVEE FRANCIS: Devotion [by John Hennessy]
As I noted earlier this week, for the next few days my focus here will be on presenting work by several of the poets we’ve published in The Common. Today we turn to the…
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Retroscope: Alan Bernheimer presents Ron Padgett’s “Albanian Diary”
Alan Bernheimer writes: <<< Ever wonder what it was like in Albania soon after the Iron Curtain came down? Travel along with Ron Padgett for the sights, sounds, and smells in the latest episode…
