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The weather forecast from “No Time Like Now” (University of Pittsburgh Press) [by Andrei Codrescu]
I don't blow my own horn because I was born in the modest half of the 20th century in a country so overtly serious about writing, especially poetry, poets could be rendered invisible while…
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Writing New York: Cornell University Press Author Panel (Tuesday, May 21, 6 PM)
At The Cornell Club-New York [Tues, May 21]6 East 44th Street Cornell University Press Authors:David Lehman, Robert W. Snyder, and William J. vanden Heuvel Moderated by:Dean John Smith, Director of Cornell University Press Join…
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“Platonic Love” [by Curt Anderson]
We dine at Adorno and return to my Beauvoir.She compliments me on my Bachelard pad.I pop in a Santayana CD and Saussure back to the couch.On my way, I pull out two fine Kristeva…
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PARIS PERFORMANCE AGENDA MAY 2019 [by Tracy Danison]
Paris Performance Calendar is a work-in-progress “dance syllabus”, complemented by essays, articles and interviews from The Best American Poetry and other publications. PERFORMANCES & CREATORS TO LOOK FOR ON THE ROAD TO SUMMER 2019 [by…
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My Body, Take and Eat (or Sermon on the Mound) [by Jill Alexander Essbaum]
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2: 17 (A disclaimer:…
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a poem from The Awl by Brandon Amico [posted by Mark Bibbins]
This poem is at least as relevant today as it was when Brandon wrote it three years ago, alas. [—M.B.] “A New Gun Folds Up to Look Just Like a Smartphone” …
