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GPS [poem by Patricia Carlin]
“Where are your times?” he sang near the band mates of tune at Joe’s pub on Tuesday question, and then answered it himself. “Your moment is nowhere but here.” He didn’t mean to seem pushy, really. …
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Next Line, Please: The Tragic Acrostic
Last week, David Lehman introduced the fateful Antigone as our muse for an acrostic poem styled after her name. There were many wonderful takes on the prompt, from Greek etymologies (titrate, expiklarate, and peripetaea)…
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Letter from Berlin #2 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Seeing the dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert in the “DUST” video Kathleen linked in her blog post led me back to the video I’ve watched most this year, JLin’s “Carbon 7.” The way Scott-Gilbert’s elasticity and…
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Alternate Universe [poem by Patricia Carlin]
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” …
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Letter from Berlin #2 – Fleshless beasts [by Kathleen Heil]
Photo: © Walter Bickmann; "Fleshless Beast" at the Sophiensaele, Oct 2016; Choreography: Roderick George; Music: LOTIC (J'Kerian Morgan) Dancers: Harumi Terayama, Jin Young Won, Olivia Ancona, Dominic Santia, Raymond Pinto, Roderick George The Sophiensaele is…
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Letter from Berlin #1 (Suggested Listening)
Perhaps my favorite song of 2017, the song that I feel best encapsulates so much of the energy and tension of this year, has been Bonaventure’s “Mulatre,” a song characterized by R&B samples struggling…
