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“West Side Story” Opened Tonight — in 1957 [by David Lehman]
Tonight in 1957 one of the all-time great Broadway musicals made its debut: West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein (left, in 1947), lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents, and choreography by…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (5), by Daniel Brown
Up through my early twenties, my dream was to be a composer—a calling for which, talent to the side, I had all the equipment. In the years since, I’ve occasionally asked myself if I…
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#TBT: John Ashbery and Joan Allen at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery November 2009
photo 2009 (c) Star Black Star Black took this photograph at the opening of John Ashbery's first show of his collages at the Tibor de Nagy gallery, November, 2009.
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Alan Ziegler presents: A Portfolio of Short Prose Forms by Erin Morgenstern, Dylan Nice, Valerie O’Riordan, Max Ritvo, and Lauren Spohrer
Erin Morgenstern THE SHEEP KNOW ALL YOUR SECRETS Photo by Carey Farrell “They seem expensive,” I said to the pink-haired girl running the booth who…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (4), by Daniel Brown
Last I checked, human faculties include the ability to follow a thought, a story, or a description. The author of a poem without a subject withholds engagement with these faculties—withholds engagement, that is to…
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AFTER WATCHING THE BIG HOUSE [poem by Laurence Goldstein]
Oz, Shangri-La, Bedford Falls,Pleasantville—how many ambiguousimagoes Hollywood has fashioned of itself!Our golden age, but darkened by sites under stress. Tonight I saw how it feelsto suffer the brute force of a hundred screws;the…
