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Smoking Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
What do you make of the cigarettes that get smoked in any Noir movie? David Lehman: Goddamn, they’re sexy. Suzanne Lummis: Sure are, and it’s clear that cigarettes had to go—no question about that—but…
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“Opening Shot”: Toward “Chapter One” [by David Lehman]
Marsh Hawk Press, under the direction of Sandy McIntosh, has launched a monthly on-line feature in which poets are asked to write up the "chapter one" of their vocations. Among those who have written…
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Four Amazing Quotes from Schopenhauer
<<<Consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached…
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True News from Paris: eight well-loved performances [by Tracy Danison]
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker talks through "Violin Fase", Lafayette Anticipations 2018 © Tracy Danison Over the next couple of months I would like to report True News on creators and performances worth looking out…
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Remembering JA the Day After He Died
<<<Writing about him in the Times, poet Rae Armantrout reflected on how Ashbery’s down-to-earth humor manifested within his poems. “He is one poet who can somehow be simultaneously elegiac and playful, even goofy,” she…
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Kent Johnson asks “Could Someone Tell Me Why?”
Kent Johnson has written an eight-page poem about The Best American Poetry, the American poetry scene and his place in it. "It is all in the honorable, august traditions of satire," he says. The poem…
