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This just in: Have a seat, I mean a pen . . .
One of my favorite blogs is The Improvised Life. I read it often for inspiration (check out this post on Tolstoy), so when they ran a series about painted furniture, I corresponded with the…
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Happy Birthday, Wystan Auden
Their Lonely Betters As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and…
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Bits and Bobs Feb 20-26
Next week: guest bloggers return with Nic Sebastian. Thursday, March 3, 7:00 pm: Monk books launch with Mark Strand’s MYSTERY AND SOLITUDE IN TOPEKA, poems and original art. 192 Books, 21st Street & 10th…
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Auden on Vanity
<< A vain woman realizes that vanity is a sin, and in order not to succumb to temptation, has all the mirrors removed from her house. Consequently, in a short while she canot remember…
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Video: John Ashbery Reads From ‘Illuminations’
In May, Norton will release John Ashbery's translation of French poet Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem sequence, Illuminations, originally published in 1886. Click to see Ashbery read and discuss the poem "Promontory" at The New School on February 7,…
