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  • Notes in a time of strike: the curatorial noos of “Futur, ancien, fugitif, une scène française” [by Tracy Danison]

    December 15, 2019

    Pierre Joseph: “Mur de mûres”, série “Photographie sans fin”, 2019: paper print. Photo: Aurélien Mole©Adagp 2019 Motivé, motivé / il faut se motiver / il faut rester motive / soyons motivé            …

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  • Homage to Walt: “I Stop Somewhere Waiting For You” [by David Lehman]

    December 14, 2019

    For Brian Clements's inspired project of annotating the two hundred years since Walt Whitman was born, two hundred poets and writers have contributed poems or reflections, which Brian — in conjunction with North American…

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  • “A Snail is What It Was” [by James Cummins]

    December 13, 2019

    Donovan thought Bob was jokin’About the old San Remo—How back then shit they were smokin’Would put to shame D.’s “primo.” All this was well before the laughsAt Max’s Kansas City:Bob still carried a photographOf…

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  • Johnny Angel, How We Love Him and “If Feeling Isn’t In It” [prose by Stacey Lehman, poem by John Brehm]

    December 13, 2019

    For the past four weeks, we’ve been under the rule of Johnny, a twelve-year-old twenty-eight pound Schipperke. David and I have never had a dog together and I haven’t had a dog since childhood.…

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  • Jocelyn Dax (1954-2019) by Stacey Lehman

    December 12, 2019

    My friend Jocelyn Dax died on Monday. Her funeral is today. We met decades ago when a mutual friend suggested that she offer me her extra ticket to the New York City Ballet at…

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  • Great Blurbs de Nos Jours [by Mitch Sisskind]

    December 12, 2019

    Mitch Sisskind's candidates: ". . . an excellent blurb line is, "i put this book in my son's/daughter's suitcase when he/she went of to Harvard/Yale/Berkeley." it shows you have a family, which makes many…

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