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  • “All Hallows” [by Louise Glück]

    October 31, 2020

    Even now this landscape is assembling.The hills darken. The oxenSleep in their blue yoke,The fields having beenPicked clean, the sheavesBound evenly and piled at the roadsideAmong cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises: This is…

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  • The Poet of Halloween: On Keats’s Birthday [by David Lehman]

    October 31, 2020

              Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers (inverted), and the Tower as…

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  • Near Wuhan [by David Shapiro]

    October 30, 2020

    I wandered lonely as a mapI had to return to the poisonous, little town of WuhanI played with my father’s ancient microscopeAnd I played with my mother’s telescopeAnd I met my sister’s metronomeAnd I…

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  • ‘Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne?’ (by Mitch Sisskind)

    October 30, 2020

      You there having coitus, I gesture to you, I salute you and I genuflect as befits you And myself also, wandering Santa Monica Tonight as you have coitus. Are you the School teacher…

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  • Archie Rand: The Motets (after Eugenio Montale) & collaborations with David Shapiro

    October 30, 2020

    Archie Rand, Motet #1, 2013, 24 x 36 inches, acrylic, enamel and fabric on canvas. BravinLee is very pleased to exhibit the Motets, a series of 20 paintings by Archie Rand, after the poems of…

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  • “The Jews of Kaifeng” [by Adrienne Su]

    October 30, 2020

    When the exhibit went up at Peachtree Center,the Chinese of Atlanta flocked downtown.Jews had been in Henan so close to forever,they weren’t seen as foreign. And we had foundan exhibit on China that wasn’t…

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