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Life is over! [stealth post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Life is over! Everything worked out fine. Humankind was a factory of a sort and the order’s been filled. Wasn’t it hard to keep going!? All that waking up and getting to bed. But that’s…
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Ethics and Aesthetics (by Malachi Black)
In the December issue of Poetry magazine, D. H. Tracy takes a long and interesting look at “The Moral and the Aesthetic, Recently.” Although his objective is to “consider how and with what consequences [contemporary]…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Anne Waldman kicked off our spring poetry season on Monday. Here are samples of what they read before the standing-room-only crowd.
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3 Quarks Daily Contest
If you've read a blog post here that you loved, you can nominate it for a "Best Arts and Literature" prize from 3 Quarks Daily. We like 3 Quarks for its interesting mix of…
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The Trouble Clef – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 [by Lera Auerbach]
The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. asked me to write program notes for one of the Kennedy Center's "Focus on Russia" programs this season. One of the works in the program was Tchaikovsky’s…
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Malachi Black, Guest blogger February 21-26
This week we welcome Malachi Black as our guest blogger. Malachi is literary editor of The New York Quarterly and a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center…
