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The end of the semester: a farewell address [by DL]
Working with you has been a pleasure from start to finish. I’d like to leave you with a few thoughts: — You can do anything. When planning your future, do not limit yourself to…
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“Comrade Auden” in the TLS
From "Comrade Auden" by David Collard (Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 2009) <<Auden’s verses apart, there are admittedly prose sections in Three Songs of Lenin which will provoke a modern audience to uneasy laughter.…
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Big Daddy Lipscomb [by Mitch Sisskind]
1.I asked Jesus for a moment of his time,We got together at the bottom of a mineAnd when I asked Jesus for…
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Richard Wilbur at the Y (in 2009) ([by David Yezzi]
Richard Wilbur gave a splendid reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y last night. After a knockout selection of poems new and old, he capped the evening with a bit from…
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Woman invisibility: Ann-Eva Bergman, Glinda the Good Witch, ruby slippers, Gretchen’s Faust, Emmy Klinker and the fate of woman painters, etc., etc.
Marianne von Werefkin, Herbst (Schule), "Autumn (School)", 1907. Photo Courtesy Wikipedia It’s Glinda, Good Witch of the West, who says the solution to a problem is as simple as closing your eyes and clicking…
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“Trigger Warning” [by D. A. Powell]
Trigger Warning I dated an x ray techBut he never saw meDated a magic actBut he never sawed me Had a lover who was a painterHe drew everyone around himAnd he claimed he’d drawn…
