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Erin Belieu, Guest Blogger September 29 – October 3
We're delighted that Erin Belieu has agreed to continue the popular series of posts from a coupleof weeks ago. Erin is the author of four poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press, including…
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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 15; Some good advice and a farewell (two poems by Tim Upperton) and a tailfeather
Avoid for Ruth Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful! ‘The city that does not sleep’ New Age mystics. Wave-particle physics.Federico Garcia Lorca,…
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Ray DiPalma’s Obedient Laughter (Terence Winch)
Ray DiPalma’s new book, Obedient Laughter (Los Angeles, Otis Books /Seismicity Editions) is made up of six sections, all of which showcase DiPalma’s lifelong exploration of the uses of language “without a fixed destination,…
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“West Side Story” Opened Tonight — in 1957 [by David Lehman]
Tonight in 1957 one of the all-time great Broadway musicals made its debut: West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein (left, in 1947), lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents, and choreography by…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (5), by Daniel Brown
Up through my early twenties, my dream was to be a composer—a calling for which, talent to the side, I had all the equipment. In the years since, I’ve occasionally asked myself if I…
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#TBT: John Ashbery and Joan Allen at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery November 2009
photo 2009 (c) Star Black Star Black took this photograph at the opening of John Ashbery's first show of his collages at the Tibor de Nagy gallery, November, 2009.