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Riddle of the Day # 4 [courtesy Richard Wilbur]
Some things that fly there be —Birds — Hours — the Bumblebee —Of these no Elegy. Some things that stay there be — Grief — Hills — Eternity —Nor this behooveth me. There are…
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Food and music… [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
My friend Carl Stone, who currently lives in Tokyo, names his pieces after his favorite restaurants. Here is his beautiful Banteay Srey, from 1991. Check out his website for more of his ever-changing sounds…
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Monday @ KGB: Wendy Mnookin & J D McClatchy
KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone Monday, March 9 @ 7:30 PM Admission is FREE
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Gamelan… [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
American Gamelan Institute, run by the gamelan scholar, composer and musician Jody Diamond, is "an organization devoted to publishing, recording, distributing, and making available information on all aspects of Indonesian performing arts and their…
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Mongolian Literature: Background Briefing [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
here are a couple of short articles which I wrote for the IIAS journal a few years ago, one on the C19 monk/scholar/nationalist/poet/womaniser/pedagog/dramaturge Danzanravjaa and his mysterious death, and the other on the younger…
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Beth and Simon… [by Simon Wickham-Smith]
Something which has gone thus far (in the few hours since we started blogging) unremarked is that your guest bloggers this week are actually part of the same delightful family. Happenstance and miscommunication meant…
