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John Gallaher: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Garlands or Crowns of, Placed on Mouths of Wells You don’t want people thinking you’re…
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George Bilgere picks a poem by Mark Perlberg
Real Estate by Mark Perlberg How odd to look across the way and note the Hymans, neighbors for a generation, are gone. Strange not to see a glimmer of light in any window as…
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Jonathan Baumbach: A Quick Recollection [by David Lehman]
Back in 1975, I held my first full-time teaching job. It was at Brooklyn College, and while most of my courses were for undergraduates, I did teach a seminar in the MFA program replacing…
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Festival Cadences dance performance: lineaments of now [By Tracy Danison]
Festival Cadences: critically-acclaimed, new and new-style dance performance. Photo: Courtesy Collectif Overjoyed September vacations are one of the advantages of our palsied, trembling, yet surprisingly mobile and cheery, old age: cooler weather, fewer convinced…
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John Ashbery Conversation [by Mitch Sisskind]
Here’s a recording I did with John Ashbery.I was a bit nervous at the beginning andthe sound quality is not the best. Still,speaking with John was an opportunity notto be missed. I had gotten…
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Jay Nordlinger on Mark Van Doren
Shakespeare with Van Doren Mark Van Doren at his farm in Cornwall, Conn., July 17, 1969 (Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images) By Jay Nordlinger January 31, 2025 6:30 AM On learning…