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Elizabeth Bishop and the Grateful Dead [by Jeffrey Harrison]
(San Francisco, 1968-69) Whether she ever saw them perform we don’t know,but she did go to a Janis Joplin show,and Thom Gunn’s account of smoking a joint with herbackstage at a group reading…
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“The New York School of Beauty” [by Mary Maxwell]
The New York School of Beauty The man who cut James Schuyler’s hair also cuts my hair.I once heard Schuyler read at the Ninety Second Street Y. A large man, he sat at a…
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“To Mr. Lawrence” [by John Milton]
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day; what…
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30th Anniversary of the Death of Tim Dlugos [by Terence Winch]
It was thirty years ago today that Tim Dlugos died at age forty of AIDS. Tim was a poet of enormous talent and creative energy. He was beloved by many, myself included. His warmth,…
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Rogues’ Gallery [by David Lehman]
<<<There’s a special onus on the villains in crime dramas. They have to be wicked, but they also have to make that wickedness interesting. Whether by being singular in some way, or by virtue…
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Ashbery on Paris (and Ellsworth Kelly)
from Ellsworth Kelly, Plant Drawings (Matthew Marks Gallery, 1992), Essay by John Ashbery. Unpaginated. About the life of an American expatriate in Paris: "I suspect that in this burgeoning period of his art…
