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Gedankenexperimenten (by Mitch Sisskind)
As I am riding a lightning bolt You are on an embankment In a box for which I have a key. O ich wünschte ich hätte mehr Gelegenheit dich zu küssen! I…
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Tripping toward Summertime: dance, performance and … puppets! [by Tracy Danison]
Photo©FlorianRainer Signs & portents A joint effort by Théâtre de la Bastille & Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson enabled Simon Mayer to tell the naked truth about folk dance with his sublimely absurd “Sunbengsitting” performance…
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Hammer Poetry: David Lehman at UCLA, Thursday, May 9 at 7:30 PM
Hammer Poetry: David Lehman Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m. David Lehman is a poet and writer, literary critic, editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry, and creator of the Best American Poetry series. Lee…
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On the First of May [by Rodgers & Hart; with Mel Torme]
Simple cooking means / More than French cuisines. / I've a banquet planned, which is / Sandwiches / and beans. / Coffee's just as grand, / with a little sand. / Eat and you'll…
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Two Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
'Hello, I'm an Intellectual' No woman will or could resistThis disarming introductionWhich, in contradistinction to Banal so-called pickup lines, Offers a frisson of brain buzzAs a kind of appetizer for thePolymorphous feast of prandial And potable invigorations…
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Ted Berrigan [by Mitch Sisskind]
Today in an email to a friend I confused Richard Friedman of Chicago with Ben Weissman of Los Angeles — the former was generalissimo of the poetry scene in the Windy City in the…
