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“to paint like picasso before 1904” by Grace Yee [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Congratulations to Grace Yee who last week won Australia’s richest literary prize, the Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo, 2023). The collection traces the story of an immigrant family…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: February 7, 2024
Just when you think Dorianne Laux’s poems could not get any better—more beautifully sonic, more profound, more YES!—she gives us Life on Earth. The title poem begins: The odds are we never should have…
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Save the Date: A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Sunday, February 18, 2024, 2:30 PM In Person at the Museum of Jewish HeritageEdmond J. Safra Plaza36 Battery PlaceNew York, NY 10280 Livestream Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise,…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Eight): Laura Cronk [by Angela Ball]
TO MY TWENTIES Stop what you’re doingand come with me. We’llwalk out into the wildcold, you in your pinksequined shell from theconsignment shop –you can have my coat.Let’s be out togetherin the world, the…
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A Collage by David Shapiro
David Shapiro contributes this "New Angel on the Internet (Klee)."
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“Drink of the Gods” [by David Lehman, 2/4/24]
Drink of the Gods Good bourbon (Four Roses),Lemon juice,One maraschino cherry, smashedCreme de Cassis (1 teaspoon). Studied psychology,Went into marketing,Then advertising. That was my life in the novelI meant to write in the firstfull…
