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  • In Memory of Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin, 1953-2015

    October 15, 2020

    On this day in 2015, Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin passed away. He was a greatly beloved Rev, acclaimed for his devotion to the cause of education and to the governing principles of Lubavitch-Chabad. Born…

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  • Movement, Life, Dance-nature and the value in Dance-practice [by Tracy Danison]

    October 15, 2020

    Ayelen Parolin’s “WEG” dance-performance choreographs observation, imitation, vibration, variation and novelty, letting onlookers revel in the complex subjectivity of human relationships. “Indispensable !”, Atelier de Paris, 11 September 2020.Photo©Benoîte Fanton For this year’s Nuit Blanche culture…

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  • “Machaut’s Complaint” [by Guillame de Machaut, trans. Robert Launay]

    October 14, 2020

    Like wicked men whose evil exploits taintThe pages of the story of their lives,Damned by God, cursed by all the saints,Banished, of any glimpse of light deprived,The month of March should share their fate…

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  • How are you, Ron Padgett?

    October 14, 2020

    "Tea for You, Too" by Ron Padgett: Ron Padgett's poem "Tea for You, Too" appears in Together in a Sudden Strangeness: American Poets Respond to the Pandemic, edited by Alice Quinn and published by…

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  • “Homage to Bashō” [7 Haiku by David Lehman]

    October 13, 2020

    Leaves that left the treesare litter now on the groundin orange and yellow. This, and six other haiku, are in the November 2020 issue of The Atlantic under the title "Homage to Bashō." Please…

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  • Uccello’s Battle in Aspic [by Clark Coolidge]

    October 13, 2020

    An ant has landed in the distance, as I tryto realize the swords as bumbershoots fallentracked around under the horses placed, and beneaththere are giant cracks in lace.  The hook cap of a catleft…

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