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Paul Scofield’s “Lear” (by David Yezzi)
Paul Scofield is my favorite Shakespearean actor. When he died earlier this year, I was fascinated to learn more of the details of his life from the many obituaries, both in the British press…
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April 15 [by David Lehman]
What a sweet guy I amwhen one of my enemies diesI don’t Xerox the obit and mail itto the others saying “Letthis be a lesson to you,” noI’m more likely to recallthe persons’s virtues…
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Ashbery tonight at the New School
Parmigianino’s Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524) John Ashbery will not read his celebrated long poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" this evening (April 15, 2008) at 6:30 at the New School…
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Postcard from the Western Limits… [by Jenny Factor]
Here on the frontier, things tend to appear and disappear, connected by long stretches of interior monologue. By which I mean: Driving. Hence the psychic terrain of Los Angeles is singularity and fairy dust.…
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Modernist Mag (by David Yezzi)
I realize it’s cheeky of me to kick off my first day of guest-blogging on the BAP site not with a look at a best American literary journal but with one of the coolest…
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Ashbery on the Roof, 1981
Photo by Bill Hayward John Ashbery reads from and discusses his work, including the recentNotes from the Air Tuesday, April 156:30 PMThe New SchoolWollman Hall66 West 12th StreetFree to students with IDAll others, $5.00…
