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Amplified vs. Transformed: Robbins & Balanchine [by Stacey Lehman]
Mr. d’Amboise in the title role of George Balanchine’s “Apollo” in 1962. “I want American boy!” Mr. d’Amboise said Balanchine told him. “He wanted me to be a wild, untamed youth, not just look…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Rebecca Lindenberg
from Love, an Index A Abandon, what I did when you touched me that winter with an ungloved hand.Ache, the heal of broken things: bones, disappointments. Allegories of Love, Fragonard’s babycolored paintings, Ovid’s pursuers and storied looms, his Atalanta her…
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Mitch Sisskind presents a poem by Shaindel Beers
I found the work of Shaindel Beers online. I was interested that she grew up in rural Indiana where once I was wont to roam. In the town of North Liberty a man asked me the…
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An Interview with Philip Brady (by Nin Andrews)
As a continuation in my series of blog posts on the nature of truth, specifically autobiographical truth in poetry, I thought I’d interview Philip Brady whose most recent collection of poetry, to Banquet with…
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Gaga at the Opéra: catching dreams and connecting with “Decadance” [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: Children at the Opéra Garnier, October 2018 Just before the show began the man loomed up over the children perched in the rows just ahead and below. They squirmed around to look. He…
