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  • Meet the Press: Able Muse Press

    January 5, 2020

    [N.B. The following interview with editor, Alexander Pepple, and poet, Susan de Sola, was conducted by Dante Di Stefano.]  Alexander, could you say a few words about Susan de Sola’s new collection Frozen Charlotte?…

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  • “Film Noir” [by Sean Speers]

    January 5, 2020

    Why me? Editor's Note: This is, I submit, the epitome of film noir in a two-word sentence. James Stewart says it in Vertigo, Edmund O'Brien says it in DOA, and Janet Leigh never gets…

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  • “Trickeration” [by David Barber]

    January 3, 2020

    TRICKERATION             Cab Calloway, Cotton Club (1931) Rhythm, look what you went and done.Rhythm, you are the guilty one.The sneaky one, the snaky one,The breakneck one, the hellbent one.Rhythm, you are the guilty one.…

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  • Lawrence Joseph on “One Hundred Autobiographies”

    January 3, 2020

    The poet Lawrence Joseph was asked to name the book or books he liked best in 2019. He picked Toi Derricotte’s I: New and Selected Poems ("30 new poems, and generous selections from Derricotte’s five…

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  • Born today (January 2), David Shapiro on the phone

    January 2, 2020

    In October 2018 I had a phone conversation with David Shapiro. Some Highlights: <<<In Ashbery's collages the juxtaposition of images is like the two-person collision in boxing. And you can quote me on that. Everything…

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  • Kiss: Archie Rand collaborates with David Shapiro (2017)

    January 2, 2020

    "Kiss” consists of six units with David Shapiro's text written in his hand with his drawn additions. 

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