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Alternate Universe [poem by Patricia Carlin]
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” …
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Letter from Berlin #2 – Fleshless beasts [by Kathleen Heil]
Photo: © Walter Bickmann; "Fleshless Beast" at the Sophiensaele, Oct 2016; Choreography: Roderick George; Music: LOTIC (J'Kerian Morgan) Dancers: Harumi Terayama, Jin Young Won, Olivia Ancona, Dominic Santia, Raymond Pinto, Roderick George The Sophiensaele is…
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Letter from Berlin #1 (Suggested Listening)
Perhaps my favorite song of 2017, the song that I feel best encapsulates so much of the energy and tension of this year, has been Bonaventure’s “Mulatre,” a song characterized by R&B samples struggling…
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Letter from Berlin #1 – On the viewless wings of Poesy [by Kathleen Heil]
Haus für Poesie, Berlin Oct 2017 Berlin is not a beautiful European city in the way of Paris or Edinburgh, but what it lacks in the picturesque it makes up for in possibility; not…
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“If You Call That Love” [poem by Patricia Carlin]
Far out at sea, I looked toward the elusive coast.Would it appear before evening?Would I love the swamps, ragged palm trees, crabsclattering their pincersover the black volcanic beach? If you call that love. I do, because,…
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Friday Night Cocktails with Jack Benny, John Ashbery and Friends [by David Lehman]
Friday at six, martinis straight up with olives. Plymouth or Hendricks. Tanqueray for JA; Bombay for Jim Tate ("lower proof so I can drink more of them"). A couple of eye drop's worth of…
