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  • WHAT I’M READING: Charles Bernstein [by Andrei Codrescu]

    January 22, 2024

    CHARLES BERNSTEIN'S GPS  "Recalculating" by Charles Bernstein (The University of Chicago Press, 2013) When they are not being performed, Charles Bernstein's poems are on the edge of performance. But they don't start that way.…

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  • Happy Birthday Mr. B. “I didn’t train her, she trained me!” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]

    January 22, 2024

    Born January 22, 1904. Choreographer George Balanchine with Mourka. Photo © Martha Swope. 

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  • Brian Turner: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    January 21, 2024

                                  _______________________________________________________ The Bodies   The bodies lie along the shoulder of the road. The bodies lie in an ambulance,…

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  • January Poems [by Nin Andrews]

    January 20, 2024

    I have a favorite kind of poem in January: origin poems, fables, midrash. After all, the first month of the year is the time to begin again. Or at least to imagine one can…

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  • “How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?” [by David Lehman]

    January 19, 2024

    from "How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock? A Multiple-Choice Test for the Maestro’s Fans" By David Lehman | January 19, 2024 / in The American Scholar <<< Though he never won the Oscar for…

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  • Since Way Back When [by Michael Lally]

    January 19, 2024

    Since Way Back When Way back in the last centuryin 1992 when I was a mere 50I slipped in between the clean sheets of my bed and sighed:Thank you, thank you. As Ialways do,…

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