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  • Drinking With Grad Students [by James Cummins]

    December 30, 2019

    You have to let these poets, half your age, have every way with you they hanker for– like stuff you in a bamboo tiger cage, or stomp your eyeballs on the barroom floor. The…

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  • (Big) Squib 354: My Visit with Louis Abolafia [by Alan Ziegler]

    December 29, 2019

    December 1968     My grandmother and her sister live in a rent-controlled walk-up on East Fourth Street between First and Second. The Hells Angels are headquartered around the block. Through the school playground across the…

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  • “But Beautiful” with Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand

    December 26, 2019

     

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  • Graham Greene Goes to Havana [by David Lehman]

    December 26, 2019

    Here's to William H. Pritchard, an old-line English professor who takes his reading seriously and writes about it for the Sewanee Review. In the Winter 2010 issue of the venerable journal, Pritchard reviews an edition…

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  • Mobilier National weaves together traditional techniques and new technologies [by Tracy Danison]

    December 26, 2019

    Detail, “Tree of Light”, OMA Space installation, Mobilier National 2019 © Jonathan Tanant Paris by bike in a time of strike… Passing by the Mobilier National warehouse, then swinging up under the elevated line……

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  • Columbia College 1967, #19 [by Mitch Sisskind]

    December 26, 2019

    Columbia College 1967, #19Michael Ganzer, Professor If you want to write a love poem don’t sayYour girlfriend smells like a new car butMaybe you could say, ‘I love you like I love‘The smell of…

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