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  • PERFORMANCES & CREATORS TO WATCH

    July 30, 2018

    PERFORMANCES & CREATORS TO WATCH features reviewed dance pieces, dance-performances and performances, along with short biographies of associated choreographers, performers and other actors. It complements the Paris Performance Calendar's AGENDA & PERFORMERS headings. It is regularly…

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  • Next Line, Please: A Bold Caravan Departs [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    July 28, 2018

    In last week's post of Next Line, Please, contributor's were asked to write an abecedarian poem in 26 words that would recount the plot of a particular novel, book, or play. We thought this…

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  • After Koch 4 (by Mitch Sisskind)

    July 28, 2018

    When David Shapiro blamed my ping-pong Victory on the distractions of what in a fit Of pique he called my flapping ostrich Gesticulations I ventured to remonstrate That in many of my life’s activities or even In most of…

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  • “Shadow Behind Eclipse” (for John Ashbery) [by Anne Waldman]

    July 28, 2018

                                           for John Ashbery When he died, a temperature went down Trees in the sky above Flatirons, tremor there Oh didn’t, then did     See? We were driving in the canyon moons ago       …

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  • “He was from the shore . . . ” [by Philip Roth]

    July 27, 2018

    "He was from the shore. There was sand and ocean, horizon and sky, daytime and nighttime–the light, the dark, the tide, the stars, the boats, the sun, the mists, the gulls. There were the…

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  • “The Ideal Reader for Jennifer L. Knox (A Fellow American Down on His Luck)” [by Jennifer L. Knox]

    July 27, 2018

    Our research shows the ideal reader for Jennifer L. Knox is a man, dressed like a woman, is over 40 but wider than a mile, 9 feet tall, all that, is a Camaro owner,…

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