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Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles, Blood Pumps, Flesh Quickens [By Tracy Danison]
“Uncertain Journey”, Chiharu Shiota. Photo © Grand Palais How better to attract enormous crowds and dithyrambic media reviews than masses of single red threads stretching from a single point into red clouds floating just…
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Spencer Reece: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________ Ephphatha for Dorothy Moran When the pandemic hit, the priest died first. Refrigerator trucks chilled the dead. The parish stacked the…
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“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”: 5 new “Next Line, Please” prompts
For our next round, write a poem using as your point of departure one of the following five “Proverbs of Hell” by William Blake (pictured left).. Your poem may, by anecdotal means, illustrate or…
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Big news from Hungary! Specters stalk Europe (and world) says Boglárka Börcsök’s and Andreas Bolm’s “Figuring Age”
"Figuring Age" by Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm. Photo © Patricio Cassinoni If somebody dressed up in Blackface for a very sympathetic and strong solo performance about Frederick Douglass and his struggle to abolish slavery,…
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Happy Birthday, WHA
Born February 21, 1907, W. H. Auden came to NYC in 1939. Here is his poem "The More Loving One" below which you will find the videotape of a discussion I led on Auden.…
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On Auden’s Birthday: What the Stars Say [by Jill Baron]
Why Auden is an Aquarius [by Jill Baron] Wystan Hugh Auden, born February 21, 1905 When I read "Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times" (the Phi Beta Kappa Poem Auden read…
