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The Other Latin@: A Q&A with Blas Falconer [by Emma Trelles]
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity is an anthology of 20 essays that, according to its co-editor Blas Falconer, aims to counter a narrow perspective of Latino/a writers and honor their diversity. In…
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“The Strings” [by Lera Auerbach]
The strings are the veins of music. In the night, inside the piano, they grow silence until it ripens and calls to the composer, who gathers sounds in the darkness, like a blind-man picking…
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The Storage Unit by Ada Limón
One of the jobs required of me during this week in Sonoma, according to my stepfather, was to go through what he refers to as MY storage unit. I wasn’t required to get rid…
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Bob Dylan’s Identity (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Imagination takes precedence over intellect for Bob Dylan. David Dalton tries to trace the career of that remarkable imagination in his book Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan (Hyperion)…
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All Shook Up at the Poetry & Cocktail Slam [by Catherine Woodard]
The drinks at the 2nd Poetry & Cocktail Slam at Back Forty were designed to have a bite, to sneak up on partakers – like the seven paired poems, like any good poem. Drink…
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“Dear John” — Ashbery, that is [by Stephanie Paterik]
for John Ashbery I am in your kitchen photographing the noonlight on your Ivory soap bottle and the lone spoonin the dish strainer. You’ve lined up various kindsof honey in front of a boom…
