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Poets Do Thanksgiving
First, a poem: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was.…
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Hysterical Literature: Marne Explores the Erotic Power of John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (NSFW)
Hysterical Literature is a video art series by NYC-based photographer and filmmaker Clayton Cubitt. It explores feminism, mind/body dualism, distraction portraiture, and the contrast between culture and sexuality. Each video features a woman sitting…
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Yes, I am an Origin of Lilacs: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Joe Weil’s A Night in Duluth
A Night in DuluthJoe WeilNYQ Books, 2016 "…he was booking out in all these tank towns, playing the rotary clubs, the Kiwanis clubs, and the American Legion hall, and he just wasn't making it,…
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Kissinger to Hillary: Take Heart, There Might be Hope [by David Lehman]
On May 2, 2013, CNN proleptically ran a news segment in which Henry Kissinger advised Hillary Clinton on the life she may expect to lead after serving as secretary of state. It is an…
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“Ex-Basketball Player” [by John Updike]
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut offBefore it has a chance to go two blocks,At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s GarageIs on the corner facing west,…
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A sudden thought overtakes me a morning in November
Rue des Pyrénées, Paris 20ème, a shoemaker's display window I shall buy a silver boat. I shall be its captain. It shall be a bark and I upon its poop. At the helm,…
