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Growing a Book [by Lera Auerbach]
© Lera Auerbach – Monoprint A tree is never just a tree. Physical distance one can measure. But what about the distance from oneself? (Too far – and numbness spreads.Too close –…
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For the Love of Ballet: In conversation with Dana Gioia [by Stacey Lehman]
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Edward Villella and George Balanchine, choreography by George Balanchine (New York) The New York Public Library Digital Collections. (photo © Martha Swope) During…
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For the Love of Ballet: In conversation with Dana Gioia [by Stacey Lehman]
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Edward Villella and George Balanchine, choreography by George Balanchine (New York) The New York Public Library Digital Collections. (photo © Martha Swope) During…
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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Checkout Line Death is not like the checkout line because People at death do not want to look at the National Enquirer which many people do Want to look at it in the…
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Sweet Chariot [a riddle from Donald Justice]
<<<Mine to give, mine to offerNo resistance. MineTo receive you, mine to keepThe shape of our nights." — Donald Justice>>> What is it? Take a Valium, do the canine-inspired Yoga move. And then rest…
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Dramaturgy [poem by Jason Schneiderman]
Dramaturgy I’m writing a play about a Kommandant at Auschwitzwho recognizes one of the Jewish prisonersas a famous poet, and as the Kommandanthas poetic aspirations himself, he pulls the prisoneraway from the work detail…
