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S.W.A.K.!!!
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless sadness o’er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know,…
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The Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Reading – Monday, February 14, KGB Bar 85 E 4th Street, NYC 7-9 PM, Free
Listen to Jerry Williams, David Lehman, Donna Masini, and Kenneth Hart read from It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup (Overlook, 2010). More information here. — sdh
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R.I.P. Mack (2000-2011)
I posted about Mack here a couple of weeks ago. At the time I knew he wasn't well but I was hopeful. His owner tells me that 11 is well beyond the usual for…
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An Evening With John Ashbery [by Stephanie Paterik]
John Ashbery, who forged his poetry career out of a genius ability to surprise us, spent last Monday evening talking about the art of chance. The poet visited an audience of 300 people at…
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Here’s to You, Julius La Rosa
The default on my satellite radio is 73, "Seriously Sinatra," which is almost always great, not least because you get to hear guest disc jockeys like Steve Lawrence talk about singing, maybe sing a…
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Some Thoughts on Zadie Smith’s Trepidations with Face Book [by Joe Weil]
“The hypertrophy of information leads to the atrophy of form” – Kenneth Burke In 1927, over 80 years before Zadie Smith warned us of the vapid communications, and the break down of the private…
