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Getting to Know: Michael Schiavo (by Daniel Nester)
In which we ask the same questions Teen magazine asked then-soon-to-be-pregnant teen idol Jamie Lynn Spears; see original interview here. Take a good look at this picture. What do you see? Look into those…
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Black Mountain on West 12th Street [by Angela Patrinos]
Last night, Vincent Katz, the poet, translator, art critic, and curator, brought the Black Mountain School of Poetry to The New School. He read poems by Ed Dorn, John Wiener, Charles Olsen, and Robert…
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Congratulations, Mark Doty
Congratulations to Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award in poetry for Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins).
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Scarves (by Joy Katz)
We've had a cold week in New York City, though after living for many years in the snow belt, it always seems to me that people here overreact to the first sign of…
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Reader Poll
Edith Wharton wrote every morning in bed for several hours before "motoring" around the countryside with Henry James. Raymond Carver, before his success, wrote in his car because his home was too noisy and chaotic. …
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“Under Cover of Darkness” [by Robert Desnos; trans. Bill Zavatsky]
Under Cover of Darkness To slip into your shadow under cover of darkness. To follow your steps, your shadow at the window. That shadow…
