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Picasso: Black and White [by Sharon Preiss]
I suppose my viewing companion and I approached it all wrong. At the Guggenheim, I like to start on thetop floor and work my way down. But the exhibit was arranged chronologically and worked…
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Games Poets Play [by Heather Christle]
This evening I was reading this post on The Hairpin, all about "low-effort toddler games" like "Do You Like My Hat?" and "Hide Things in Your Clothes," and it reminded me of a passage…
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The Drunkenness of Things Being Various (by Jenny Factor)
Since the first of the year, the days here in sunny So Ca have been unseasonably cold and occasionally wet. Several times a day, in and out of the house with dog, in and…
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Dream House [by Heather Christle]
You know the moment when you discover that other people have the same dream as you? I love that. I don't mean dream as in goal; goals are silly. Dreams are much more important.…
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Married to a Sculptor [by Grace Cavalieri]
(Ed note: We are sad to learn that Grace Cavalieri's husband Ken Flynn has died. Grace is an award winning poet, a playwright, and an energetic champion of poetry. Here is an essay she…
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From the Archive: Inaugural poems 2009
Three Flags, 1958, Jasper Johns In early December Nancy Benac of the Associated Press phoned me because she was working on a piece about the coming inauguration and she had read "A…
