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“Australia” by Ania Walwicz [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
In Ania Walwicz’s “Australia” we get a critique of the country through the eyes of an outsider. The poem’s diction (a vibrant, broken English), paired with the accuracy of complaints (“You silent on Sunday.…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 18, 2023
Let’s all raise a glass to poet Rick Mulkey, whose ode exquisitely captures “the liquid mystery train / of peril and possibility.” “Concerning Whiskey” was first published in MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature…
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The Piano Music of Charles Ives
The Piano Music of Charles Ives – Master Class with Dave Frank www.davefrankjazz.com Join NYC piano monster Dave Frank for a thoroughly unique, in-depth introduction to the life and music of America's…
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Weather Report [by Lewis Saul]
Warm and sunny, with intermittent showers of be-bop, funk, and … jazz fusion. At some point in the 80's that term became a bad word. Perhaps jazz fission would have been better. (clean energy)…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Two): Kirsten Kaschock [by Angela Ball]
MY STUDENTS WANT MY TENURE They want a little bit of motheringand a little bit of God. They want a little bit of someone-who-admits-mistakes from someone who never makes them. They want a safe…
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Freud on the problem of evil
Let us look away from the individual to the great war that is still devastating Europe. Think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself over the civilized…
