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Rachid Ouramdane’s national dance theater: making space for imagination [by Paul Tracy Danison]
A couple of Johanna Faye’s Black Sheep dancing at, in, a point of transition – Palais de Chaillot, 18 September 2021 I wonder if our civilization’s habit of building everything as an impossible play…
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An Interview with Rachel Hadas [by Aspen Matis]
Rachel Hadas is the author of more than twenty books of verse and prose, including the acclaimed poetry collections Poems for Camilla, Questions in the Vestibule and, most recently, Love and Dread. Her poems appear…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Morton Marcus
The First Laugh The first laugh was God creating the universe. That guffaw is still exploding in all directions, hollowing out and filling the farthest reaches of space. What could have been so funny?…
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The Winning Entry: “When Charles Bukowski Met Bob Dylan” [by Angela Ball] with judge Jim Cummins’s comments & runners up
Charles Bukowski in One Corner; in the Other, Bob Dylan If anyone should take eighteen-shot Dylan Thomas’s name,it’s me. I challenge you to a duelwith two bottles of Four Roses. –Chuck, that may be…
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Anne Sexton: On the Anniversary of her Death [ed. Terence Winch]
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator The end of the affair is always death. She’s my workshop. Slippery eye, out of the tribe of myself my breath finds you gone. I horrify…