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Kary Wayson: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ More of the Same Even with my mouth on your thigh I want my mouth on your thigh. At the center bite of bread I want the whole loaf, toasted.…
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On Henry James’s Stories of Artists [by David Lehman]
<<< The long New England winter is finally thawing, and here at The Common, we’re gearing up to launch our newest print issue! Issue 29 is full of poetry and prose by both familiar…
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Good and giddy, arty and philosophical: “Tout Léger” at the Musée du Luxembourg [By Tracy Danison]
Niki de Saint Phalle, "Nana santé". Photo © 2024 Niki Charitable Art Foundation Musée du Luxembourg marketing describes Tous Léger ! Avec Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Keith Haring… as “highlighting…
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Breasts [poem by James Cummins]
William Bailey "N" (Female Nude) c. 1965 Breasts He never thought breasts antagonistic.Unreachable, perhaps; unknowable, eitherin the Biblical or secular sense. Mythic.But the glorious revelations that exceededwhat he once would have optimistically called expectations,…
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“Evening Hawk” [by Robert Penn Warren]
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping throughGeometries and orchids that the sunset builds,Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, ridingThe last tumultuous avalanche ofLight above pines and the guttural…
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Two Platitudes [by Mitch Sisskind]
Easier said than done is almost always true: For example, the act of getting out of bed. On some days I find laborious to do, But I got…
