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“Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles” [by Dana Gioia]
1 On the streets of Hawthorne I sat down and wept.Yes, wept as I remembered it. I came to the asphalt country of my childhood,To revisit the precincts of memory. I walked the old…
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“Mary McCarthy” [by Mary Maxwell]
To the very end of Cape Cod the refugees have arrived, shipwreckedheroes out of Homer. But even Helen was an exile of sorts, pointing outher noble countrymen to Priam from the stone barricades. Alternating…
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from “Grand & Ogden Auto Parts” (by Mitch Sisskind)
'Send your sick animals to me' Kim and I (but she was Marilyn Novak then) We smelt fished at Belmont Harbor one April As the restriction allowed but seeing as how Smelt only ran…
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In Memory of Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin, 1953-2015
On this day in 2015, Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin passed away. He was a greatly beloved Rev, acclaimed for his devotion to the cause of education and to the governing principles of Lubavitch-Chabad. Born…
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Movement, Life, Dance-nature and the value in Dance-practice [by Tracy Danison]
Ayelen Parolin’s “WEG” dance-performance choreographs observation, imitation, vibration, variation and novelty, letting onlookers revel in the complex subjectivity of human relationships. “Indispensable !”, Atelier de Paris, 11 September 2020.Photo©Benoîte Fanton For this year’s Nuit Blanche culture…
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“Machaut’s Complaint” [by Guillame de Machaut, trans. Robert Launay]
Like wicked men whose evil exploits taintThe pages of the story of their lives,Damned by God, cursed by all the saints,Banished, of any glimpse of light deprived,The month of March should share their fate…
