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  • How the Title of the Song Came to Him (one line at a time)

    November 18, 2024

    Why be at the dune?I see the juice of prune.Sigh me until June.My Lai to the wound. Try tea on the mound.Guy way, or the ground.Fry bee to the sound.Highway not too soon. Live…

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  • Angelo Verga: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    November 17, 2024

      _______________________________________________________ My Father Loves Me, He Loves Me, He Gets Down on His Knees and Hugs Me   My father hugs me, and sweats we go down one step        …

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  • “Solitude” [by Adrienne Su]

    November 15, 2024

    Solitude I had had my fill,but I kept devoting moredays, then weeks to it, buying books, makingno plans, as if empty slotswould well up with rain, pushing anyonewho might edge into my spaceaway as…

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  • Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley leave the Ballet de Lorraine: how to say goodbye good [By Tracy Danison]

    November 15, 2024

    “CRWDSPCR” by Merce Cunningham, v. Jacobsson/Caley 2024. Photo © Ronan Muller, CCN-Ballet de Lorraine Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley are leaving the Ballet de Lorraine at the end of 2024, so on 6 November…

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  • An Interview with Grace Cavalieri [by Nin Andrews]

    November 14, 2024

    NA: As you know, I’m a huge fan of your work—your poems, paintings, interviews, memoir, plays. Sometimes, when I can’t remember how to write or what to ask in an interview, I will google…

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  • “Ulysses” and The Gettysburg Address — Great Poems of the World, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind

    November 12, 2024

    Ulyssesby Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race,…

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