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Harold Bloom on Jazz
Harold Bloom [photo by Sue Mingus] . . . the whole jazz tradition from at least Amstrong on features what was called "cutting." And cutting is the pure instance – from the Greeks on,…
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Overheard (6/29/23)
The Giants have a pitcher named Cobb and another one named Webb. “It’s time to upgrade your bra.” They were arguing about whether ketchup should be refrigerated. “Who’s the target audience? Depressed women…
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Varieties of dance performance: trading a mess of pottage for sense and awareness [by Tracy Danison]
“The Game of Life”, sextet, 50 minutes. Creation 2022 by Liz Santoro, Pierre Godard, cie Le principe de l’incertitude and Jean-Yves Macé, cie l’Instant Donné. Le Carreau du Temple, June Events, 14 June 2023.…
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The Poem Rivers Forward to the Sea: A Conversation Between Dante Di Stefano and H. L. Hix
Dante Di Stefano, Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). H. L. Hix, Bored In Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023) H. L. Hix: Not two weeks before we began this conversation,…
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On Richard Rodgers’s birthday [from the BBC Proms 2010: The “Carousel Waltz” and other great Rodgers & Hammerstein Songs]
Pictured: Richard Rodgers (June 28,1902 – December 30, 1979) Happy birthday, Dick.
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Two Poems by M.T.C. Cronin [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
M.T.C. Cronin has been among the most prolific Australian poets over the course of the last three decades, having published more than twenty volumes of poetry since her debut collection Zoetrope: We See Us…
