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  • The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-One): Anselm Berrigan [by Angela Ball]

    May 30, 2023

    What the Streets Look Like Mom: the sweet rottedsummer stench stilltaps the nasal cavityinside breezes severaltimes per block. I havea greater empathy forpigeons after two monthsat work in the unnatural country, & find itinstinctively…

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  • Jacob Collier [by Lewis Saul]

    May 30, 2023

    On August 2 1994, in North London, Suzie Collier — a violinist, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music — gave birth to a boy, Jacob. To compare this genius of the…

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  • “To World War Two” [by Kenneth Koch]

    May 29, 2023

    To World War Two Early on you introduced me to young women in barsYou were large, and with a large handYou presented them in different cities,Made me in San Luis Obispo, drunkOn French seventy-fives, in…

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  • “Just Walking Around” [by John Ashbery & new bio notes]

    May 29, 2023

    Just Walking Around What name do I have for you? Certainly there is no name for youIn the sense that the stars have namesThat somehow fit them. Just walking around, An object of curiosity…

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  • Tara Borin: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    May 28, 2023

                                      _______________________________________________________ List of Duties in a Subarctic Dive Bar   If the temperature outside is twenty-five below…

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  • Four Amazing Quotes from Schopenhauer

    May 26, 2023

    Consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached…

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