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Andrey Gritsman and David Lehman to Read at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Join us at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Wednesday, December 13th for an evening with Andrey Gritsman and David Lehman, who will read their translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky, among other poems. Vladimir Mayakovsky …
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What if “to Ashbery” were a verb? [by the Associated Press, with David Lehman’s two cents]
<<<Ashbery says he just reread an essay by Auden in which the poet called the Oxford English Dictionary "his most treasured reading" and praised the language as large, yet lenient, noting how Shakespeare would…
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Letter from Berlin #5 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Detroit techno is one of my greatest passions, ever since being introduced to Jeff Mills in the mid-90s, but I've only ever heard it specific contexts (two, to be specific: headphones, dance club), and…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Nicci Mechler of Porkbelly Press
DD: On your personal website, you have a great quote: “In a perfect world, Audre Lorde and Joseph Campbell would sit down over a few pints of Mudder’s Milk to speak about the way…
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Letter from Berlin #5 – Dancing on our own [by Kathleen Heil]
Photo credit: Anton Lang Living in Berlin and being indifferent to electronic music is like living in Italy having never tried pasta: you're missing out on something fundamental to the culture if you…
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Not Night [poem by Patricia Carlin]
It’s not natural. Not night,the hole inside the hole.This way, that way.No way. Can you keep going?The sun keeps going. Old, young, taking your footsteps.Tomorrow someone will ask,“Is this what she wanted?”And someone will answer“She…
