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Elaine Kahn: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ The Good News about Hell Suburbs are the perfect habitat for deer. Jesus said they make the…
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“Appeal to the Grammarians” [by Paul Violi, July 20, 1944 – April 2, 2011]
Appeal to the Grammarians We, the naturally hopeful,Need a simple signFor the myriad ways we're capsized.We who love precise languageNeed a finer way to conveyDisappointment and perplexity.For speechlessness and all its inflections,For up-ended…
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In Defense of Jim Morrison, Poet [by Daniel Nester]
“The lyrics Jim Morrison wrote for the Doors are wonderful and chilling and moving,” David Lehman writes to me. Poet, critic, and series editor of The Best American Poetry, Lehman knows about song lyrics. His most recent…
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The Man He Killed [by Thomas Hardy]
The Man He Killed "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And…
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Emily Fragos, Louise Glück, and “The Night Nurse” [Terence Winch]
Last month, June of 2025, I found myself having to undergo two separate cardiac treatments at DC’s Washington Hospital Center, each visit spanning two days. Like most people, I hate being a hospital patient.…
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Re: Philippe Nuss, medical doctor, psychiatrist and philosopher of movement, Jean-Christophe Boclé, choreographer [By Tracy Danison]
Cognition, functionality, autonomy/flow, happening, sensibility/positioning, sound, movement. Dance performers Aure Barbier and Charles Noyerie rehearse a phrase from Nijinsky’s Après-midi d’un Faun as noted in Labanonotation by dance analyst, the late Ann Hutchinson Guest. Music…
