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International Poetry Festival: Sunday, Oct 20, 7 PM, School of Visual Arts (NYC)
International Poetry Festival Sunday, October 20, 7 pmSCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS MFA SOCDOC136 West 21st Street, Manhattan Readers to include Vladimir Gandelman, Andrey Gritsman (pictured), Anna Halberstadt, Helga Landauer, David Lehman, Basil Lyoff,…
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Happy 90th Birthday, Richard Howard [by David Lehman]
Happy Birthday, Richard Howard If you’re 84 today that means you were 47 when we metYou came to read poems and give two lecturesOne on “The Art of Digression” the other on “The ArtOf Hesitation” I think but could be…
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Squib 334 [by Alan Ziegler]
TITLE One of my bookshelves contains a novel by the German writer Peter Handke called "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick"; I read the spine a lot. Although I haven't read the book,…
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Available Now: “One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir” by David Lehman
One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman.Cornell Univ, $22.95(248p)ISBN 978-1-5017-4645-1 Poet and critic Lehman (Poems in the Manner of…), who was treated for bladder cancer in 2014, brilliantly captures the despair, uncertainty, and…
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Met Percent: Week Eight [by Alec Bernstein]
Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame, Byzantine, 1100, gallery 303 At the Met, lingering in the darkened galleries of the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, I select a few favorites: Eikonomachía – literally, "image…
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The Curse that Cannot Speak Its Name (by Mitch Sisskind)
A New York Times article full of negative insinuations linked Democrat candidate Tulsi Gabbard to white supremacist groups and Russian cyberbots. Throughout the article there’s puzzlement and a certain annoyance about Tulsi Gabbard: “What…
