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  • Want to be among the world’s first certified choreographers? Check out La Fabrique de la Danse [By Tracy Danison]

    November 3, 2023

    Théophile Bensusan (l.), creation entrepreneur, dance performer, La Fabrique de la Danse, Paris. Photo © Emmanuelle Stäuble “Orianne Vilmer has energy”. That’s what comes to mind as I am sitting down for the chat.…

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  • Introduction to Michael Farrell (Part 1) [by Thomas Moody]

    November 1, 2023

    Michael Farrell is one of Australian poetry’s great experimenters. Over his eight collections to date he has pushed at the limits of form, structure, syntax and more to interrogate, and indeed reshape, what “Australian…

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  • WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: November 1, 2023

    November 1, 2023

    Kelle Groom uses all her poetry chops in her new “A Memoir-in-Essays” called How to Live which was published by Tupelo Press in October.  In these essays, she continues her quest for “home” in physical…

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  • “Last Song” [by Terence Winch]

    November 1, 2023

    Last Song   Mother! Where have you been? Yourchildren are drinking beer and playingthe piano. Every single thing you everowned has long ago disappeared. We’renot even sure when exactly you were bornor what ship…

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  • “Angelic Autism: The Boy Who Could Fly” [by Joe Lehman]

    October 31, 2023

            With the exception of Dustin Hoffman’s role in 1988’s Rain Man, a great many representations of autism in fiction, particularly in Hollywood movies, focus on autistic children and young adults. The inevitability that…

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  • Born Today: Keats — as well as this master of light

    October 31, 2023

    Born today was he who painted this portrait of a young woman with a water jug. The blue is rich, the geometry superb, and light flowing in from the window a miracle of air…

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