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Kate Hagerman Photographs Shelley Jackson’s Words
<<< Since I am not a word, but am curious about the experience of being a word, I asked author Shelley Jackson if I could photograph some of her words from the novel SKIN.…
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Who’s on first? Charles North at the New School
We’ll post a full report soon but here’s a taste of what you missed if you couldn’t make it to Charles North’s reading and interview last week at the New School. Fantastic! Video by…
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Jeremy Schmall + Anthony McCann at KGB Bar [by Megin Jimenez]
KGB Monday Night Poetry kicked off its Spring 2011 season on February 21 with Jeremy Schmall (right) & Anthony McCann, both reading from new books. (Coldfront Magazine published a "set list" of the reading here.) You may…
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Auden in Iceland
I'm reading (again) "Letters from Iceland," by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNiece. In this excerpt, Auden makes observations of Icelandic poetry and gives an example of a form that strikes me as being…
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All Mozart, All the Time (Kudos to Sandy McClatchy)
Congratulations go to J. D. McClatchy [shown here, left, with James Merrill in 1988] on the publication of Seven Mozart Librettos (Norton), his verse translations of The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio from the…
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What would Kafka do? One more reason to love him.
In July, 1923, Franz Kafka was staying at the vacation colony of Volksheim, where he was loved and cared for by Dora Diamant, the cook. Pietr Citati recounts a dinner given in honor of…
