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Squib 498, after Frank O’Hara [by Alan Ziegler]
It is 5:43 p.m. in New York a Saturdayone day before my birthday, yesand the Manhattanville Viaduct with her face on it. and I am sweating a lot by now (because it's August) and…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: April 26, 2023
Eileen Myles has done it once again—delivering poems so deceptively simple this reader is shocked by the intimacies and revelations within. In a “working life,” they make it look easy—this dance between the scrupulous…
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Musical Plagiarism Then and Now [by Lewis Saul]
Musical plagiarism was an accepted practice in the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, is was considered more of an homage. When discovering the works of Vivaldi, Bach went to work on rewriting them…
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Tony Towle: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ In Progress We adjust the background so that I am still in a forest,…
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In Praise of the Late John Tranter [by Thomas Moody]
Word has just reached us that John Tranter, the brilliant poet and editor, died on April 21, just eight days shy of his 80th birthday. We will be running a tribute to John Tranter…
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Zao Wou-Ki at MAM Paris: intriguing (painterly) commentary on modern art in Europe [By Tracy Danison]
Zao, Wou-Ki 趙無極, Encre 79, N°6, 1979. Photo: Charles Delepelaire/Parisienne de Photographie © Adago, Paris A donation of nine Zao Wou-Ki paintings has recently been added to the Museé de l’Art Moderne de Paris…
