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  • What Remains? [by Lera Auerbach]

    July 9, 2021

    Ink on Music Paper © Lera Auerbach     What do I remember?  Sounds, sound all around.  I don’t know words yet, but I can feel melodies of phrases.  Everything is music: the voices…

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  • Po-Biz and Letters to Nancy Mitchell and Amy Gerstler [by Nin Andrews]

    July 9, 2021

    Sometimes as poets, we need to get together and bitch, my friend, S., says. So last week we got together to bitch about po-biz. Her complaints are familiar ones. Like many poets and writers today,…

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  • The Divine Comedy [by Mitch Sisskind]

    July 9, 2021

      Inferno Oh for God's sake you don't Have idea number one about Basketball or horse racing, You could never navigate Your way around a wine list And the many childish books You've been…

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  • Why Lee Wiley?

    July 8, 2021

    Lee Wiley (1908-1975) was the greatest girl singer you may never have heard of. Try her interpretations of these tunes: Let's Fall in LoveO! Look at Me NowManhattanStreet of DreamsSoft Lights and Sweet MusicTime…

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  • Lionel Fogarty [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    July 7, 2021

    I first came across Lionel Fogarty's poetry in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead. At the time, I was pretty well ignorant of contemporary Indigenous Australian…

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  • Name the Artist

    July 6, 2021

    Name the artist, the painting, and the year!

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