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  • This Just In . . . For the Artists Out There

    August 14, 2009

    Our filmmaker/photographer friend Bill Hayward sends this crash of color and caution: am sending along this crash of color just because… everyone should see this at least once in their gray lives… this store…

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  • Mad Men Season Premiere: August 16

    August 14, 2009

    Here, from the New York Times, is Alessandra Stanley's preview of the new season. (To the left: Christina Hendricks as top secretary and chief voluptuary Joan  — the greatest piece of ass of all…

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  • “Busy men doing important work” (by Mitch Sisskind)

    August 14, 2009

    Busy men doing important work:Flying private into Minneapolis, Orlando,LAX, checking into Four Seasons Laguna,CNN on HDTV, the toilet flushing;A few – very few, actually – die suddenlyOf coronary infarction on the double bedsBut far…

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  • Poets Anonymous:Twelve Steps [by Elena Karina Byrne]

    August 14, 2009

    POETS ANONYMOUS: TWELVE STEPS With a Marianne Moore poem, "Nevertheless" 1. We admitted we were powerless over metaphor, simile, imagery, meter, assonance, consonance, rhyme, and narrative —that our lives had become unmanageable. you've seen…

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  • Greg Santos Interviews Jason Camlot (part 4 & Last)

    August 14, 2009

    For earlier installments of Greg Santos's interview with Canadian poet Jason Camlot, click here: GS: Rob Allen was your teacher but also a colleague and a friend of yours.  The whole last part of…

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  • “The Newer Critics” [by Jim Cummins]

    August 14, 2009

    The Newer Critics They arrived at doubtthrough an excess of certainty.“Avuncular” was a dishof humble pie for them. They were the first generationof new critics taughtby the first generation of new critics.Their smiles were…

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