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I Saw IT (by Mitch Sisskind)
After a very bad summer, Hollywood is looking to IT for a bailout. IT might work, we'll see. IT is a horror movie…
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Remembering John Ashbery: “You were often delighted.” [by Danielle Pafunda]
A photo I took of a newspaper clipping John Ashbery tore out for me (21 years ago, I can't believe the thing's still in one piece and among my oft moved belongings!) I…
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Art Tatum, “Tea for Two” [by David Lehman]
When Art Tatum played piano, God was in the house
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JA Reads and Explains “These Lacustrine Cities” on Bruce Kawin’s Radio Show (1966)
Jeff Hipsher has posted this excellent interview that Bruce Kawin conducted with John Ashbery in, I would guess, spring 1966. At the time Bruce hosted a half-hour radio show, "Literary Workshop," on WKCR, Columbia's…
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David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His newest book of poetry is Poems in the Manner Of. Other poetry…
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I Bowled Like Shit (by Mitch Sisskind)
Smig, drinking at the Timber Lanes bar, Makes a feeble dumbshow of his face Toward whomever – myself and others, For Smig is well loved there – he makes A feeble dumbshow if anybody…
