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The Most Beautiful Thing in New York (by Jeremy Schmall)
Usually when I tell people what I think the most beautiful sight in New York is, they just kind of stare at me funny, as though I'm lying to them or making a joke…
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Late Summer Reading (part 1): Poets House Showcase [by Moira Egan]
I’m certainly not going to complain about where I spend my Augusts these days. But I must confess to a little pang of nostalgia when one dear poet girlfriend who lives in New York…
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Dispatch from Buenos Aires: Eight Months After 12-12-12 by Mong Lan
(ed. note: Last December we asked Mong-Lan to reflect upon violence that plagues her in home city. Here are her thoughts on the riots that erupted on a day that was intended to be…
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“Heroic Story” [by John Tranter]
An unremarkable birth in a provincial town –No talk of comets in the sky, or groaning wells –A turbid adolescence. The academic gown,That ocean of literature, freshets of verse,All fodder. He learns to sell…
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Is the Avant-Garde Dead? Long live the avant-garde! [by David Lehman]
<<<The avant-garde has been dead except conceptually since the triumph of Abstract Expressionism meant that everyone wanted to be avant-garde. Avant-garde as a distinction succeeded Existential with the same inexorable logic and force with…
