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  • Rae Armantrout: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    May 11, 2025

    ______________________________________________________ The Craft Talk   So that the best thing you could do, it seemed, was climb inside the machine that was language and feel what it wanted or was capable of doing at…

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  • The Cloisters

    May 9, 2025

    The Cloisters museum in Fort Trryon Park is where I spent many afternoons growing up in Washington Heights and Inwood. — DL

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  • Come one, come all: Kenneth Koch’s centennial, Saturday May 17 at Flow Chart Foundation (Hudson, NY)

    May 9, 2025

    organized by Jordan Davis, Justin Jamail, Eric Longo and the Flow Chart Foundation: Kenneth Koch Centennial Gathering   SCHEDULE (subject to change) for 5/ 17 / 25 [10am—bagels & coffee] 11am-11:15am — Welcome by…

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  • Woman invisibility #1 : The thing about Gabriele Münter’s pictures… [By Tracy Danison]

    May 9, 2025

    “À l’écoute (Portrait de Jawlensky)” (1909),Gabriele Münter. Photo© Adagp, Paris, 2025 The thing about Gabriele Münter’s pictures is they reach out and grab my eye. And her expressionism is to her time’s Expressionism what…

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  • Charlie Simic and the “Great Poets’ brawl of ’68”

    May 9, 2025

    Charles Simic files this report in the NY Review of Books blog. <<Back at Louis Simpson’s house in Stony Brook, during the farewell party on the last night of the conference, a fight broke out. People were…

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  • There’s a certain Slant of light [by Emily Dickinson]

    May 8, 2025

    There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –   Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference –…

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