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“Something Wonderful May Happen” screening at The New School
"Something Wonderful May Happen" (2001), a documentary made by Danish filmmakers about the New York School of Poetry, will be shown at 6 PM this Friday evening December 8 at The New School, in…
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Next Line, Please: Abecedarius in 26 Words
This week's prompt for Next Line, Please called for variants and elaborations on “I’m going to break that marriage up” (spoken by Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives) or Norah Ephron’s…
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Squibs 234-243 [By Alan Ziegler]
234. As a young reporter in 1970, I was assigned to review a musical billed as a tryout for Broadway. I declared the production a “pleasant enough way to spend a summer evening, but…
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Andrey Gritsman and David Lehman to Read at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Join us at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Wednesday, December 13th for an evening with Andrey Gritsman and David Lehman, who will read their translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky, among other poems. Vladimir Mayakovsky …
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What if “to Ashbery” were a verb? [by the Associated Press, with David Lehman’s two cents]
<<<Ashbery says he just reread an essay by Auden in which the poet called the Oxford English Dictionary "his most treasured reading" and praised the language as large, yet lenient, noting how Shakespeare would…
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Letter from Berlin #5 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Detroit techno is one of my greatest passions, ever since being introduced to Jeff Mills in the mid-90s, but I've only ever heard it specific contexts (two, to be specific: headphones, dance club), and…
