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Bill Nevins: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo (detail) by Tony O’Hara _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ No Prisoners What can I say?We met in Santa Fe. She’s got everything she needs,She’s an artistAnd she knew John Berryman. Poets are worsethan lawyersshe saidworsethan mosquitoesLike those…
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Mitch Sisskind’s Collected Poems, 2005-2020
From the book, this poem, which we first posted on February 8, 2015: Balzac Speaks of Salvation Through Sexual Intercourse How else to keep alive the spiritOf sans souci, the flame of youth,But with sexual…
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Lt. Pete Campanelli, NYFD [photograph by Bill Hayward]
lt. pete campanelli, nyfd photo(c)Bill Hayward
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“Letter from American Airspace” [by Elizabeth Powell]
Today is the pub date for Elizabeth Powell's excellent new book Atomizer by Elizabeth Powell (Louisiana State University Press). Here is "Letter from American Airspace," a poem from the book: The end of romance…
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Performing by ear, Paris venues open doors, point the sky [by Tracy Danison]
“Cold Blood”, state-of-the-art live performance by Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael and Kiss & Cry collective, La Scala Paris, 2019. Photo©Julien Lambert Here comes the sun, do, dun, do, do/ Here comes the…
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The return of the mountebanks to Paris: the imperative pleasure of live performance [by Tracy Danison]
A mountebank tries her hand for the Compagnie Gwénaël Morin’s “Uneo uplusi eurstragé dies” performance, which opened the post-lockdown season in Paris. Photo©Emile Zeizig/mascarille.com Yeah baby, I like it like that/ You gotta believe…
