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  • “Solitude” [by Thomas Moody]

    May 19, 2017

    I always need someoneto tell I want to be left alone

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  • ICYMI: David Lehman reads from “Poems in the Manner Of”

    May 16, 2017

    In case you missed the recent reading at the NYU Bookstore, you can watch below as David reads from Poems in the Manner Of  Thank you Yael Yisraeli of the NYU Bookstore for hosting…

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  • Braided Interior: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Heisenberg’s Salon by Susan Lewis

    May 15, 2017

    Heisenberg’s SalonSusan LewisBlazeVox Books, 2017 Susan Lewis’s new collection of prose poems engages the complex routines and the constantly shifting contours of daily life in the twenty-first century with great humor, terror, anger, and…

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  • The Music Man [by Jamie Katz]

    May 12, 2017

    illustrations by Derek Heldenbergh There’s a delicious scene in the third season of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle in which Nico Muhly ’03, Juilliard’04, playing himself, introduces an aria he has composed expressly for…

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  • Emily Wore White [Collage by Bascove, poem by Emily Dickinson]

    May 12, 2017

    Emily Wore White: Dickinson’s A Spider sewed at Night, 2017, lace, thread, photographs, needles, drawing & collage, 20 1/2 x 54” (c) Bascove Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Loose sheets. A Spider sewed at Night.…

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  • Poem: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last evening [by David Lehman]

    May 8, 2017

    It was a first rate audiencein every sense. Jerome read first.His corporate sonnetsreflect years of labor that Marx would characterize asalienated in the tall tower of Time and Life on Sixth Avenue. There is…

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