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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Five) Matthew Yeager [by Angela Ball]

    March 7, 2023

    The Ongoing Lamentationof Anna Nicole Smith “You have a beautiful face Mr. Gray. Don’t frown.” – Wilde ….Right now, for instance, there’s my terrycloth robe, the walls, the curtains, the carpet, my slippers, and…

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  • Two Mozart Piano Concertos [by Lewis Saul]

    March 7, 2023

    1. Mozart Piano Concerto #3 in D Major, K. 40 (1767)Murray Perahia, piano/cond.English Chamber Orchestra   At the age of 11, Mozart learned to write piano concerti by taking examples of earlier music —…

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  • Leah Umansky: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    March 5, 2023

                                    ______________________________________________________ In My Next Life, I Want to Be an Ad Man   I want to be donned…

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  • “The Publisher of Heaven” [by Ron Padgett]

    March 3, 2023

    The Publisher of Heaven I looked at my leg and became a publisher. The day was bright with my leg. The trees laughed quietly, the wind shifting their leaves this way and that, in…

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  • A Kick in the Ass [by Mitch Sisskind]

    March 3, 2023

      When somebody went to prison He'd say they went to college or If somebody was sick he'd say They had the sniffles regardless 0f the cancer raging or whatever They had the sniffles,…

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  • “That Ship Has Sailed” by Terence Winch [by Stacey Harwood Lehman]

    March 3, 2023

    Terence Winch's That Ship Has Sailed (University of Pittsburgh Press) arrived last week, and reading it has given me many pleasurable hours. Here is "Father," a favorite poem that in a few brief lines…

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