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  • Musing Terpsichore at the Regard du Cygne: “Ma Robe” on the blood-red Recamier [by Tracy Danison]

    July 14, 2020

    Zoe Salmon performs “Ma Robe”, Regard du Cygne, Paris, 8 March 2020, Photo©Morena Compani “If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”.                …

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  • For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Joshua Escobar

    July 13, 2020

      Trade?-markers, pen, paper-2017-Joshua Escobar everybody in generalby Joshua Escobar let’s kissFrank as in Frankenstein let’s kisspeople in cages let’s kissnebulae double-crossed let's kissstraight people mauling whatever they love let's kissthe sexuality of other…

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  • Michael Lally: Pick of the Week [ed. by Terence Winch]

    July 12, 2020

                                    Michael Lally, ca. 2008 The Night John Lennon Died ___________________________________ One warm night, when I was a kid,we…

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  • “Homage” [by Tony Towle]

    July 12, 2020

    It was not the cup of hypnoerotic teabut the calculation in her memoirsthat stirred the secret possumhiding in the crowdto dream of thermal compatibility. As I was explicating these linesto an immense golden hawk,in…

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  • Kenzie Allen Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]

    July 11, 2020

    Ace Boggess launches this, the first of five mini-reviews, with this prefatory note:  <<When David Lehman asked me to do a handful of mini-reviews of poems that have stuck with me, I realized that…

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  • In Monet’s Dining Room: Remembering Milton Glaser (1929-2020) [by Rozanne Gold]

    July 10, 2020

      "Milton’s designs were sumptuous, color-drenched, vivid, expressive and…mouthwatering." The art world, to be sure, is mourning the loss of one its greatest graphic designers and typography innovators of all time. Milton Glaser’s evocative…

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