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The greatest roots blues performance ever recorded (by Mitch Sisskind)
The purest rendition of this kind of music I’ve ever seen. I’m tempted to expatiate but for your sake I will resist! Just notice what is there and what is not there. Johnny Woods…
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Star Black: Photos from the BAP Gala, 9/25/08
Meghan O'Rourke Richard Howard Lee Upton Laura Cronk and David LehmanJohn Ashbery and Adam Zagajewski All photos by Star Black. Adam Zagajewski was reading at NYU that evening, but he and his party joined…
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“Perhaps theory should listen to poetry. . .”
"Perhaps theory should listen to poetry, give up the ideal of the subjectless text, stop denouncing the space between subject and object as simply false, and begin to see it as a devious and…
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“Wild Nights! The Poetry of Eros” October 3, 2008, at One PM
On Friday October 3, at 1 PM, David Lehman will present "Wild Nights: The Poetry of Eros" at the New School's Lang Auditorium (55 West 13 Street, 2nd Floor). He will talk about a…
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“Bread and Wine” by Friedrich Hölderlin (part 7)
"I don't believe you have any notion of the pleasure that the arrival of the fourth volume of Hölderlin's collected works provided me. I had been waiting for it so long and so eagerly…
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What is “The Best American Poetry,” anyway? [Don Share]
The week went by so quickly, and I’d hoped to pontificate, stimulate debate, bring smiles to the faces of my readers, and in general shine a spotlight on the culture of American poetry. Etc. …
