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  • Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Russell Edson

    January 25, 2009

    “Russell Edson is the dean of American prose poets, the irrepressible and irresistible author of surreal fables, an American Aesop.”—Ed Ochester The Alfresco Moment             A butler asks, will Madam be having her morning…

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  • Film Still Series – Intimacies # 5 [by Bill Hayward]

    January 24, 2009

    From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. See more…

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  • “Modern Love”: XLIX [by George Meredith]

    January 24, 2009

    # 49 He found her by the ocean’s moaning verge,Nor any wicked change in her discerned;And she believed his old love had returned,Which was her exultation, and her scourge.She took his hand, and walked…

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  • At Seventeen by Elizabeth Alexander

    January 24, 2009

    I want to do it, want to snort and rootand forage in your skin and apertures.It happens fast. It hits a frantic pitch. I want to touch touch, suck suck, lick licklike my kin…

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  • Question: Was Moses a Satmar hasid? Answer: YES! (by Mitch Sisskind)

    January 24, 2009

    Here's proof—————>>>>

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  • For your listening pleasure [by Moira Egan]

    January 23, 2009

    [another photo of Mark Strand & Damiano Abeni by Mario Ventura] Just for fun, and/or if you happen to be studying Italian, you now have the opportunity to listen to two interviews with Mark…

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