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Festival Signes d’Automne 2022 at the Belleville Swan # 2: Off-the-cuff creativity and new perspectives from Korea [by Tracy Danison]
Shadows and robots from “Homo Lupiens” by Kyung Shin Kim, produced for “Festival S.O.U.M. – Soirée de co-création Franco-Coréenne,” 2022, Regard du Cygne. Photo © Timothée Shin Off-the-cuff cooperative creativity and fresh consideration of…
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Some Cinematic Suggestions [by David Lehman]
For The American Scholar, I've posted short essays on the movies I've listed here. Here are links to, and brief excerpts from, the articles. To this post, which first appeared on March 27, 2020,…
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An elephant speaks to tourists in a safari vehicle (by Mitch Sisskind)
Would you please not take pictures of me? Thank you. I'm asking nicely.Some elephants enjoy the spotlightBut to my ears, oh God, those clicking Cellphone cameras! (some trumpeting)Also, please do not whisper or laughAbout…
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Pilgrims on the Ocean [by Terence Winch & Eileen Estes]
Terence Winch & Billy McComiskey, 2016 …
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Tanya Larkin on Cavalli, Koch and Paestum: Is There Any Comparison?
"I don't want to talk about love, I just want to make it." (D'amore non voglio parlare, lo voglio solamente fare.) I hear this Patrizia Cavalli line, made famous in Kenneth Koch's poem "Talking to…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 21, 2022
For today’s post, I point you in the direction of Chard deNiord’s “Tablet” which explicates/expands upon the surviving tablets of the epic poem Gilgamesh. Using anaphora, permutations of language, and big “what if” questions,…
