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“Ithaca”: 16 Sonnets [by David Lehman]
Ithaca by David Lehman Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage.—Joachim du Bellay 1 Happy as Ulysses is he who ventures forth,who leaves behind his idols and his homelandand mourns the loss…
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“Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O’Hara” by Jennifer Maiden [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
“Chatty abstraction” is how Eileen Myles described the defining quality of New York School poetry in an essay in the Fall 2003 issue of Mississippi Review. “John Ashbery heard John Cage's randomness of composition…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 29, 2023
For today’s post I want to congratulate Dong Li on his first poetry book The Orange Tree, winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, to be published by the University of Chicago Press…
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La Biennale de danse du Val de Marne: “Célébration, transmission, imagination” + energy in creativity and happening [By Tracy Danison]
“Necesito, pièce pour Grenade”, Dominique Bagouet, Ensemble choregraphique Conservatoire de Paris. Photo © Laurent Philippe Bordering Paris to the east and south, Vitry-sur-Seine in the Val de Marne department is a foot-of-the-wall town that…
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Squibs 488-497: The Bar Mitzvah Boy and the Photographer [by Alan Ziegler ]
488: THE BOOK The great narrative and portrait photographer Paul Aniess died on May 13, 1970. There was a large decrease in the number of professional photographs taken on Long Island the morning of…
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Happy birthday, Robert Frost
Who said poetry makes nothing happen? — SDH