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In Paris, celebrate diversity, inclusion and our shared planet with June Events 2025 [By Tracy Danison]
“Eléctro-Tap”, duo, creation, Candice Martel. Photo © Marc Plantec Take heart. In 2025, in addition to the 500 new pedestrian streets and new tree plantings announced by her really excellent Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo,…
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“Mystery and Solitude in Topeka” [by Mark Strand]
Afternoon darkens into evening. A man falls deeper and deeper into the slow spiral of sleep, into the drift of it, the length of it, through what feels like mist, and comes at last…
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Must listening: Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture
Heard on the Street Schubert’s string quartet number 13in A minoralso known as the Rosamunde Quartetrose two pointson the quartet exchange today, which differs from most marketsinasmuch as each point occurs in fourthslike a…
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Who wrote “The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers”?
Who wrote "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers" (and if you haven't read it, here's a link)? a) Andrew Marvellb) John Ashberyc) Marvelous Marv Throneberryd) Andrew Jackson3) Percy Bysshe Shelleye) The Merry Widowf) Barbara…
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Two Poems by Dante Di Stefano
Dante Di Stefano's "Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen" was chosen by Dana Gioia for The Best American Poetry 2018. "Exodus," the second poem here, is of the same vintage. — DL Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen In…
