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Affective Poetics and Narrative Need, Part I [by Leslie Heywood]
The recent “neuro-revolution” in poetics has tended to replicate the privilege granted to cognition over affect in other areas of neuroscience. What is most important, from this perspective, is the prefrontal cortex and its…
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Tonight at KGB: Daisy Fried + Idra Novey
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Daisy Fried + Idra Novey Monday, March 25th, 2013 Doors open at 7:00 pm Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th…
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Leslie Heywood, Guest Blogger March 25-29
This week we welcome Leslie Heywood as our guest blogger. Leslie is Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY-Binghamton. She is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir (Free Press/Simon…
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Larkin, Uncensored (On Living for Others)
"Living for others," others say, "is best."It might pay better than self interest:For when you bitch things, as you're bound to do,It's they who don't get what they want, not you. Note the characteristc…
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Isle of the Dead [by Lera Auerbach]
If Venice is married to Death – the small island of San Michele is the offspring of this union. It takes an entire day to visit San Michele, the legendary Isle of the Dead.…
