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A Jar Jar Binks moment: Photographic painter Wolfgang Tillmans’ universal beauty closes Centre Pompidou, Russia attacks Poland, time and tech whack Best American Poetry [By Tracy Danison]
"The fruits and vegetables leave the heart of Paris for the last time", sculpture by Raymond Mason, church of Saint Eustache, Paris, 10 September 2025 I went to visit, lit a candle to, Raymond…
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“A love poem in prose format, sprinkled with New York Jewish patois and rhymes. . .” [by Douglas A. Smith]
A FINE ROMANCE: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs David LehmanSchocken ($23) by Douglas A. Smith It’s not until the last chapter of David Lehman’s book A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songwriters that the author recounts to…
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Honoring Steve Schrader [by Alan Ziegler]
Steve Schrader will be honored by Teachers & Writers Collaborative on September 18. I won’t be there because I will be teaching, as I’ve been doing regularly since Steve (then the Director) hired me…
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“A History of Modern Poetry” [by David Lehman, chosen by George Bilgere]
Here’s a poem for today, September 17, 2025 A History of Modern Poetry by David Lehman The idea was to have a voice of your own, distinctive, sounding like nobody else’s The result was…
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Frank Kermode’s Library: The Sense of an Ending
From The New Yorker, November 7, 2011, this aside by James Wood in his meditation on personal libraries — his exploration of the notion that they are, at least in some cases, expressions of vanity: <<I…
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Their bright materials: cie Scuola della Crisi’s apex performance-theater work [By Tracy Danison]
“Materia Prima”. Photo © Diane Line Farré & Matthieu Baquey Materia Prima, a performance-theater piece fresh from creation-residence at Théâtre de l’Aquarium, left me profoundly shaken. Moved, I mean. Materia Prima works as performance. It…
