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KGB Season Finale
Last night’s season finale reading at KGB was a reminder of why this series continues to thrive: a packed house of "fit" listeners (including many poets: I spotted Lawrence Joseph, Karen Volkman, George Green,…
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Mentors & Apprentices (by Jenny Factor)
This week, I have felt more than a little silently thoughtful after reading Jim Cummins’ missive from the outpost of a younger-self-and-Kenneth-Koch and Denise Duhamel’s memories of Jane Cooper. For those who have shared…
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Robert Rauschenberg RIP
Retroactive 1 (1964) Robert Rauschenberg dies in Florida, age 82.
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The Mad Hatter’s Guide to BAP [I] [by Lauren MacArthur]
1988 John Ashbery is a fedora, brown. Find him on the Upper East side or in the tony areas of Tribeca or the Village. He is sophisticated, straightforward and a tad aloof. Perhaps even…
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Memories of Jane Cooper (by Denise Duhamel)
I’m on a residency at Yaddo, where there has been a fire in the main office building. The fire took place early Friday morning (1-2 a.m.) No one was hurt—or in the building at…
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Questions (by Nin Andrews)
Questions What if love and poetry were the same thing? Would you ever be able to say you were done? Say . . . that’s enough already? Would you repeat the same poems like…
